Sandbox AQ

SandboxAQ (incorporated as SB Technology Inc.) is an enterprise SaaS company that combines artificial intelligence with quantum technologies — a pairing it brands "AQ" — to build software for computationally intensive industries. Its product lines span post-quantum cryptography and cryptographic asset management, quantum sensing and navigation for GPS-denied or degraded environments, and simulation software built on what the company calls Large Quantitative Models (LQMs), applied to molecular design, chemicals and materials, financial modeling and navigation.

The cryptography products scan enterprise IT systems to identify data still protected by older cryptographic standards, prioritize urgent remediation and support migration to quantum-resistant algorithms in line with emerging NIST standards; the AQtive Guard platform has been deployed to inventory and analyze cryptographic assets and certificates across large networks. In the simulation domain, the company positions LQMs as physics-, chemistry- and biology-grounded quantitative models that produce numerical results for real-world problems, accessible through large language model interfaces as well as directly. Target sectors include telecommunications, financial services, healthcare, government and defense, energy, chemicals and materials, and pharmaceuticals.

The company describes a software-first, hardware-agnostic approach that runs on classical high-performance and GPU infrastructure today while remaining oriented toward future quantum hardware, rather than developing quantum computers itself.

Founding story

Founded by serial entrepreneur Jack D. Hidary, whose team and inspiration originated at Alphabet Inc. from 2016 through 2022; the company was spun off from Alphabet's Google and launched independently in March 2022 with Eric Schmidt as chairman of the board.

Business model

Enterprise SaaS: software modules, applications and services sold to large enterprises and government agencies, alongside hardware, applications and services that combine AI/ML infrastructure with quantum technologies. Products include post-quantum cryptography modules, quantum sensing and navigation systems, and simulation tooling delivered in part through cloud platforms.

Sales of enterprise software modules, platforms and related services to enterprise and government customers, supplemented by government research funding such as the $500 million CHIPS R&D award.

Traction

At the February 2023 funding announcement, the company was said to have more than 15 enterprise and government customers and collaborations with more than 30 universities. Reported deployments include SoftBank Corp.'s use of AQtive Guard to identify cryptographic and certificate vulnerabilities in large-scale networks, plus customer relationships with Vodafone Business, Mount Sinai Health System and Wix.

Latest developments

Recent activity includes a definitive agreement for a $500 million CHIPS R&D award for discovering new chipmaking materials, availability of Large Quantitative Models through LLM interfaces including a partnership with Anthropic's Claude, general availability of LQMs on Google Cloud (January 2025), a joint synthetic molecule dataset with Nvidia for AI-driven drug discovery (June 2025), the AQCat25 spin-aware foundation models for catalysis, and the introduction of solid-state battery modeling AI.