At the latest BRICS summit held in December 2025 in Brazil, member countries, for the first time, recognized quantum computing as one of their strategic common priorities in the final summit statement; a move that signals BRICS’s transition from technology monitoring to the phase of targeted and coordinated development of quantum technologies.
In the statement, quantum computing was introduced as a transformative technology capable of solving highly complex computational problems—issues that even the most advanced classical supercomputers cannot solve within a practical timeframe. The use of qubits, superposition, and entanglement enables massive parallel processing, making quantum computing a key tool for heavy and data-driven industries.
For BRICS countries, technological applications in this field are highly important. Quantum computing can play a decisive role in optimizing national and continental energy and transport networks, accurately simulating climate systems, designing new materials for batteries and semiconductors, improving productivity in the mining and metal industries, and molecular simulations in advanced pharmaceuticals and agriculture. These areas are directly tied to the economic structure of BRICS member countries.
BRICS’s focus on quantum computing also entails efforts to develop quantum hardware, native algorithms, middleware, and shared laboratory infrastructures. In a situation where access to advanced chips and specialized quantum equipment is tightly export-controlled, intra-bloc collaboration can facilitate the independent development of this technology and reduce reliance on foreign infrastructures.
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