Business Description

Overview IonQ is the world’s first and only quantum platform company. We operate in every theater: in space, in the air, on land and at sea, where we seek to deliver the full promise of quantum, across computing, networking, sensing and security. We believe that we have the clearest path to fault-tolerant quantum computing, and a repertoire of networking, sensing and security products that will form the backbone of a global quantum infrastructure. We are developing quantum computers designed to solve some of the world’s most complex problems and transform business, society and the planet for the better. We believe that our proprietary technology, our architecture and the technology exclusively available to us through license agreements will offer us advantages both in research and development and in the commercial value of our product offerings. Today, we sell specialized quantum computing hardware, together with complementary products and services, such as quantum networking, quantum sensing and quantum security products and associated maintenance and support. We also sell access to several quantum computers of various qubit capacities and are in the process of researching and developing technologies for quantum computers with increasing computational capabilities. We currently make access to our quantum computers available through three major cloud platforms, Amazon Web Services’, or AWS’s, Braket, Microsoft’s Azure Quantum and Google’s Cloud Marketplace, and also to select customers via our own cloud service. This cloud-based approach enables the broad availability of quantum-computing-as-a-service, or QCaaS. We supplement our offerings with professional services focused on assisting our customers in applying quantum computing and our quantum networking, quantum sensing and quantum security solutions to their businesses. We also sell full quantum computing systems to customers, either over the cloud or on premises. Additionally, through a network of satellites, we offer data-as-a-service products to customers, including synthetic-aperture radar imaging, and through combining our satellite platform with our quantum sensing products, we intend to offer advanced quantum positioning, navigation and timing services in the future. We are still in the early stages of commercial growth. Since our inception, we have incurred significant operating losses. Our net losses attributable to IonQ, Inc. were $510.4 million, $331.6 million and $157.8 million, for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively. As of December 31, 2025, we had an accumulated deficit of $1,194.1 million. We expect to continue to incur significant losses for the foreseeable future as we prioritize reaching the technical milestones necessary to achieve an increasingly higher number of physical and logical qubits and higher levels of qubit performance than presently exists—prerequisites for quantum computing to reach broad quantum advantage. From time to time, we have acquired or invested in complementary businesses, and intend to continue to consider making such acquisitions and investments. For more information on recent acquisitions and investments and their impact on our business, refer to 4 Note 3, Business Combinations, Note 5, Fair Value Measurements, and Note 22, Subsequent Events, in the notes to our consolidated financial statements included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The Quantum Opportunity Throughout human history, technological breakthroughs have dramatically transformed society and altered the trajectory of economic productivity. In the 19th century, it was the industrial revolution, powered by the scientific advances that brought us steam-powered machines, electricity and advanced medicine. These technologies drastically improved human productivity and lengthened life expectancy. In the 20th century, computing—arguably the greatest of all human inventions—leveraged human intelligence to run complex calculations, paving the way for profound advances in virtually every realm of human experience, including information processing, communication, energy, transportation, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, agriculture and industry. Since classical computing emerged in the mid-twentieth century, there has been exponential progress in computer design, with processing power roughly doubling every few years (Moore’s law).…