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IBM doubles down on quantum tech with U of I – Crain’s
April 17, 2026
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IBM and U of I’s Grainger College of Engineering at Urbana-Champaign launched a decade-long, 200 million research partnership called IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute in 2021, focused on artificial intelligence, supercomputing and materials research. Since then, IBM has collaborated with U of I to launch the National Quantum Algorithm Center, which will be a tenant at of the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park in Chicago that’s being built at the former US Steel factory site on the Far South Side.
IBM plans to build a team of up to 50 researchers in Chicago.
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