AsianFin—Japan's government-backed technology institute will work with the world’s chipmaking giant Nvidia to build a hybrid supercomputer that offers quantum computing capability for use by researchers and companies.

The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology is building a quantum-AI hybrid cloud system called ABCI-Q, as part of the country's efforts to enhance the quantum computing power. 

Silicon Valley-based Nvidia, also the top designer of artificial intelligence chips, is already supplying graphic processing units to the ABCI-Q, but will also provide quantum computing software via a cloud service.