SandboxAQ at $5.75B: $500M DOE Grant, Nvidia + Google + T. Rowe Backing, and the Quantum-Materials Wedge

SandboxAQ is one of the more idiosyncratic names on our pre-IPO watchlist for the Frontier Alternatives Fund: it sits at the intersection of quantum-inspired simulation and applied AI, but its wedge is not “general quantum compute.” Instead, its bet is that physics-based modeling plus AI can compress years of trial-and-error in