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AI-summarised brief · reviewed before publication

Q-CTRL’s Boulder Opal platform has achieved fully autonomous, cold‑start bring‑up and gate calibration on QuantWare’s D‑Line superconducting quantum processors. In a demonstration on a 21‑qubit QuantWare Contralto‑D21 device, the physics‑informed AI state machine tuned five‑qubit feedline blocks from an uncalibrated condition to gate fidelities suitable for operation in under three hours, without any specialist intervention. The system addresses a major scaling bottleneck: dozens of interdependent control parameters—such as TWPA biases, qubit drive frequencies and flux pulses—must be repeatedly adjusted to counteract environmental drift. Traditional scripted routines often fail when frequencies drift beyond narrow scan windows, forcing manual re‑tuning. Boulder Opal’s automated state machine detects anomalies, filters false‑positive resonances, and restores underperforming qubits, while logging all parameters and diagnostics to a web‑based dashboard for inspection. Technical details are posted on Q‑CTRL’s blog.