SandboxAQ claims its LQMs can offer ‘critical advances’ in sectors such as life sciences, financial services and navigation.

Quantum computing and AI technology company SandboxAQ is to make two of its ‘large quantitative models’ (LQMs) available for Google Cloud Marketplace users with the aim of driving AI-assisted developments in materials science, healthcare and drug discovery.

SandboxAQ said its LQMs are “rigorous, physics-grounded scientific models” built on “real-world lab data and scientific equations” that will now interface with other AI models through Google’s platform.

The ‘AQCat’ LQM, which will be available on the storefront in Q3 of this year, “targets the most critical first step in catalyst and materials discovery, adsorption energy calculation, which is a measure of how strongly molecules bind to a catalyst surface”, its maker said.

Researchers will be able to use AQCat “to rapidly identify and prioritise the most promising candidates” for materials discovery “before committing costly modelling and lab resources to full evaluation”, according to SandboxAQ, which said that catalysts underpin more than 90pc of all commercially produced chemical products and directly impact initiatives such as green hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuel, fertiliser production and plastics recycling.

“Bringing our LQMs to Google Cloud’s Marketplace will put the rigor of first-principles science directly into the hands of every researcher, in the tools they already use,” said Jack D Hidary, CEO of SandboxAQ.

“Pairing the reasoning of a frontier model such as Gemini with the quantitative precision of our LQMs is a powerful combination.”

The ‘AQPotency’ LQM, available later in 2026 on Google Cloud Marketplace, “will let researchers computationally identify and prioritise the most promising binders at high throughput, evaluating thousands of candidates in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional screening”, according to its creator.

SandboxAQ said that binding molecule identification is “the foundation of designing a safe, effective drug”, and the new LQM would offer “frontier, physics-grounded drug discovery capabilities” to pharmaceutical and biotech R&D teams.

Brian Goldstein, vice-president of strategic AI and independent software vendors at Google Cloud, said: “Bringing SandboxAQ’s large quantitative models to [our] marketplace is one of the ways we are empowering healthcare researchers to accelerate drug discovery and solve one of the most critical gaps in healthcare today.”

SandboxAQ is already integrated with Anthropic’s Claude AI model. It claims its LQMs can offer “critical advances” in sectors such as life sciences, financial services and navigation.

The company began life at Alphabet, the parent organisation of Google, in 2016, before launching as a spin-out in 2022. SandboxAQ is chaired by Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google.

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