Fast anneal expected to impact a wide range of
quantum computing applications, from advancing scientific research
in quantum simulation and AI, to solving real-world problems across
industries
D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) (“D-Wave” or the “Company”), a
leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services and the
world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers, today
launched the fast-anneal feature, available on all of D-Wave’s
quantum processing units (QPUs) in the Leap™ real-time quantum
cloud service.
The fast-anneal feature has been a key part of D-Wave’s research
milestones, including work published in Nature Physics (2022) and
Nature (2023), demonstrating the advantages of annealing quantum
computing over classical algorithms for solving complex
optimization problems. With this feature now widely accessible,
users can perform quantum computations at unprecedented speeds,
greatly reducing the impact of external disturbances such as
thermal fluctuations and noise that often hinder quantum
calculations. By offering extended control for notably faster
annealing times than previously available, the feature paves the
way for customers to reproduce and build on D-Wave’s landmark
optimization results using full-scale coherent annealing quantum
computing available through D-Wave's Advantage™ systems and the
Advantage2™ prototype, the company’s most performant system to
date.
“Providing direct access to Fast Anneal, which has been at the
heart of D-Wave’s recent advancements, represents a significant
step forward in our mission to provide customers with the resources
they need to drive innovation and achieve extraordinary results,”
said Dr. Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave. “We believe it will further
empower them to build industry-shaping applications with the most
powerful quantum computing environment available today.”
Growing customer demand for D-Wave’s latest annealing quantum
computing technology is clear from the usage of the two
next-generation Advantage2 experimental prototypes, which together
have solved nearly eight million customer problems since they were
made available in 2022 and 2024.
The fast-anneal feature is anticipated to draw attention from
commercial and academic researchers eager to build world-class
applications, expand benchmarking studies, and connect increased
coherence to better performance.
“The ability to use the fast-anneal feature to directly interact
with D-Wave’s Advantage2 prototype is particularly exciting for our
work building quantum-enhanced generative AI models trained on
molecular data to accelerate drug discovery and design new
materials,” said Christopher Savoie, co-founder and CEO of Zapata
AI. “The fast-anneal feature can produce coherent distributions
that have the potential to allow more efficient encoding of complex
data patterns in a way that is classically impractical. In addition
to molecular discovery applications, this feature could also be
valuable in other industrial applications involving complex data
patterns, particularly in combinatorial optimization problems found
across industries.”
“By providing direct access to quantum computing’s central
nervous system, D-Wave is single-handedly opening new horizons for
our research on quantum computing and AI,” said Ed Heinbockel,
president and CEO of SavantX. “We believe the new capability will
help us realize significant benefits of coherence on application
development that we’d otherwise be unable to achieve.”
“Fast Anneal will assist researchers in observing the
distinctive physical processes inherent in the quantum world.
Heightened coherence and reduced environmental interference will
open avenues in quantum sciences,” said Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla
with Los Alamos National Laboratory. “By equipping scientists with
technology capable of exploring the interactions of quantum objects
with control and minimal disturbances, we anticipate a new era of
experimentation free from the limitations that have hindered
traditional experimental approaches. With increased quantum
coherence, we can finally achieve precise observations of quantum
phenomena, previously only accessible in theory but now within
reach of experimental validation.”
About Zapata AI
Zapata AI (Nasdaq: ZPTA) is an Industrial Generative AI company,
revolutionizing how enterprises solve complex operational
challenges with its powerful suite of generative AI software. By
combining numerical and text-based generative AI models and custom
software applications to power industrial-scale solutions, Zapata
AI enables enterprises and government entities to drive growth,
cost savings, and critical operational insights. With its
proprietary data science and engineering techniques, and the
Orquestra platform, Zapata AI is accelerating Generative AI’s
impact across industries by delivering higher performing, less
costly, and more accurate solutions than current systems. The
Company was founded in 2017, spun out of Harvard University, and is
headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
About SavantX
SavantX is one of the first organizations in the world to
leverage the enormous power of quantum computing to solve
large-scale data challenges that unlock transformational growth in
productivity and innovation. With a focus on solving real-world
problems, SavantX offers a suite of powerful products through
SEEKER and HONE that help organizations unlock their full
potential. SEEKER revolutionizes the way organizations access and
understand their data. With seamless integration of Generative AI,
SEEKER enables frictionless access to vast knowledge repositories,
providing actionable insights and uncovering hidden relationships
and patterns. Powered by Quantum Computing technology from industry
leader D-Wave, HONE (Hyper Optimized Nodal Efficiency) leverages
the immense power of our quantum algorithms to tackle large-scale
optimization problems in the supply chain space.
About Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory is one of the world’s most
innovative multidisciplinary research institutions. We're engaged
in strategic science on behalf of national security to ensure the
safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile. Our workforce
specializes in a wide range of progressive science, technology and
engineering across many exciting fields, including space
exploration, geophysics, renewable energy, supercomputing, medicine
and nanotechnology.
About D-Wave Quantum Inc.
D-Wave is a leader in the development and delivery of quantum
computing systems, software, and services, and is the world’s first
commercial supplier of quantum computers—and the only company
building both annealing quantum computers and gate-model quantum
computers. Our mission is to unlock the power of quantum computing
today to benefit business and society. We do this by delivering
customer value with practical quantum applications for problems as
diverse as logistics, artificial intelligence, materials sciences,
drug discovery, scheduling, cybersecurity, fault detection, and
financial modeling. D-Wave’s technology has been used by some of
the world’s most advanced organizations including Mastercard,
Deloitte, Davidson Technologies, ArcelorMittal, Siemens
Healthineers, Unisys, NEC Corporation, Pattison Food Group Ltd.,
DENSO, Lockheed Martin, Forschungszentrum Jülich, University of
Southern California, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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