This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Quantum AI and NLP, QNIP 2025, held in Bloomington, Indianna, USA, during August 6–9, 2025.

The 17 full papers, one short paper and one abstract included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. They were organized in following topical sections: Artificial Intelligence for Quantum Computing; Quantum Computing for Artificial Intelligence; Quantum Natural Language Processing (Q-NLP); Cognitive Models and Quantum-inspired Formalisms.