Rigetti Computing, Inc 8-K, filed Jul 18, 2025
Rigetti Computing, Inc. (RGTI)
About this 8-K
Rigetti Computing, Inc filed this 8-K on July 18, 2025, reporting on events of July 16, 2025.
Items reported
- Item 8.01: Other events
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Item 8.01 Other Events.
On July 16, 2025, Rigetti Computing, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that it achieved its mid-year performance milestone of 99.5% median two-qubit gate* fidelity on its modular 36-qubit system (composed of four 9-qubit chips tiled together), which represents a 2x reduction in median two-qubit gate error rate from the Company’s previous best results on its 84-qubit single chip Ankaa™-3 system.
*The Company implemented CZ gates, which are a commonly used two-qubit gate for executing quantum circuits and have equivalent computational power to iSWAP gates.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Date: July 18, 2025 | RIGETTI COMPUTING, INC. | |
| By: |
/s/ Jeffrey Bertelsen | |
| Jeffrey Bertelsen | ||
| Chief Financial Officer | ||