Thinking On Paper Infleqtion Quantum And The NVIDIA QPU - Matthew Kinsella
Feb 3, 2026
Matt Kinsella, CEO of Infleqtion and builder of quantum hardware and software, explains how quantum processors will sit above GPUs in data centers. He covers NVIDIA's NVQ Link bridging QPUs and GPUs. Short takes include a hybrid solve of a materials problem, three-layer compute architectures, and bringing quantum-style software to edge GPUs for GPS-free navigation.
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Quantum Extends, Doesn’t Replace, Classical Compute
- Quantum processors will not replace classical computers but will enable new classes of workloads.
- Matt Kinsella says QPUs will sit above GPUs in the data-center stack and handle problems GPUs can't.
Solving The Anderson Impurity Model Together
- Infleqtion and NVIDIA solved the Anderson Impurity Model by splitting work between GPUs and a quantum computer.
- GPUs handled classical parts while Infleqtion's QPU solved the quantum-limited pieces and results recombined.
Quantum Mirrors Nature’s Computation
- Quantum computers model nature natively, so they excel at electron and molecule interactions.
- Matt Kinsella argues classical GPUs struggle with inherently quantum problems because they map everything to bits.