SandboxAQ says its LQMs can provide ‘critical advances’ in fields such as life sciences, financial services and navigation.
Quantum computing and AI technology company SandboxAQ will make its ‘large quantum models’ (LQMs) available to Google Cloud Marketplace users with the aim of advancing AI-assisted advances in materials science, healthcare and drug discovery.
SandboxAQ said its LQMs are “robust, physics-based scientific models” built on “real-world lab data and scientific calculations” that will now work with other AI models through Google’s platform.
The ‘AQCat’ LQM, which will be available in store in Q3 of this year, “targets the first very important step in catalyst discovery and material discovery, to calculate the adsorption capacity, which is a measure of how strongly the molecules bind to the catalyst surface”, its manufacturer.
Researchers will be able to use AQCat to “rapidly identify and prioritize the most promising candidates” to find building materials “before expensive modeling and lab facilities are needed for full testing”, according to SandboxAQ, which said catalysts support more than 90pc of all chemical products produced commercially and have a direct impact on applications such as green aviation fertilizing, plastic recycling.
“Bringing our LQMs to the Google Cloud Marketplace will put the rigors of first-principles science in the hands of every researcher, in the tools they already use,” said Jack D Hidary, CEO of SandboxAQ.
“Coupling the logic of a frontier model like Gemini with the numerical precision of our LQMs is a powerful combination.”
The ‘AQPotency’ LQM, available later in 2026 on the Google Cloud Marketplace, “will allow researchers to identify and prioritize the most promising compounds at high throughput, testing thousands of candidates in half the time and cost of conventional testing”, according to its creator.
SandboxAQ said identifying a binding molecule is “the foundation for safe, effective drug design”, and the new LQM will provide “frontier, physics-based drug discovery capabilities” to pharma and biotech R&D teams.
Brian Goldstein, vice president of strategic AI and independent software vendors at Google Cloud, said: “We’re bringing big models to SandboxAQ [our] the point of sale is one of the ways we are empowering healthcare researchers to accelerate drug discovery and address one of the most critical gaps in healthcare today.”
SandboxAQ is already integrated with Anthropic’s Claude AI model. It says its LQMs can provide “critical advances” in sectors such as life sciences, financial services and navigation.
The company began life at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, in 2016, before being launched as a spin-out in 2022. SandboxAQ is led by Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google.
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