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New Industry Study Confirms the Quantum Gap — Quantum Links AI Was Built to Close It
Milton Keynes, UK - 19 June 2026 — A major new industry study published this week by IQM Quantum Computers has confirmed what Quantum Links AI has been building towards since its founding: quantum computing has entered a capability era, but the vast majority of enterprises remain locked out.
The IQM State of Quantum 2026 report, based on research across hundreds of global organisations, found that 89% of enterprises now have hands-on quantum activity, yet only 13% have achieved any form of production deployment. The report identifies the skills gap as the single most consistent barrier, cited by 66% or more of large enterprises surveyed.
"This report validates everything we have been saying to investors and customers," said Tariq Syed, CEO and Co-Founder of Quantum Links AI. "The hardware is ready. The major cloud providers, IBM, Google, AWS, Microsoft, have live quantum infrastructure available today. The problem has never been the technology. The problem is access. Enterprises cannot hire their way out of a global quantum skills shortage. They need a platform that removes that barrier entirely."
The Access Layer for Enterprise Quantum Computing
Quantum Links AI is building the infrastructure layer that sits between enterprise businesses and quantum hardware providers. Its proprietary Kappa Score engine evaluates any computational workload and automatically determines whether quantum processing will deliver a meaningful advantage. Then routes it to the optimal hardware provider, with no quantum expertise required from the end user.
The platform is hardware-agnostic, designed to integrate across IBM, Google, Rigetti, and Quantinuum backends. The company has already confirmed live execution on real quantum hardware, with workloads successfully routed and executed on a Rigetti quantum processor via AWS Braket — returning real results.
"The IQM report describes exactly the window we are operating in," added Tariq Syed. "The organisations building quantum capability now will hold a structural advantage that later entrants will find very difficult to close. We are giving enterprises the ability to be early movers without needing a quantum physics department."
Early Mover Advantage — Now or Never
The IQM study explicitly warns that the period between now and the arrival of fault-tolerant quantum computing, projected between 2029 and 2031, is the critical window for enterprise capability building. Organisations that wait risk falling permanently behind competitors who are already integrating quantum workflows into their operations.
Quantum Links AI is currently raising a seed round to accelerate its move from working prototype to first paying customers, with active commercial discussions underway in life sciences and financial services.
About Quantum Links AI
Quantum Links AI is an enterprise quantum computing access platform founded by Tariq Syed. The company's mission is to make the power of quantum computing accessible to any organisation, regardless of their internal quantum expertise. The platform handles hardware routing, task translation, and results delivery — invisibly, automatically, and intelligently.
Website: www.quantumlinks.ai
Contact: tariq@quantumlinks.ai
Source: IQM State of Quantum 2026, published 18 June 2026.
Available at thequantuminsider.com.