HPC News Bytes 20250317: Intel’s New CEO, Is D-Wave Quantum Superior?, ‘AI Woodstock’ at GTC

A Happy St. Patrick’s Day to everyone! As the accelerated computing world congregates in San Jose, here’s a rapid (6:36) rundown of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: What’s coming from Intel’s new CEO, did D-Wave achieve quantum supremacy?, “AI Woodstock” GTC25 in San Jose this week.

Quantum vs. Classical HPC: D-Wave Reports Quantum Supremacy on Materials Simulation

D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today announced a quantum advance published in the journal Science, confirming that its annealing quantum ….

HPC News Bytes 20250310: TSMC’s $100B for Arizona Fabs, New AGI Benchmarks, JSC’s Quantum-Exascale Integration, Chinese Quantum Reported 1Mx Faster than Google’s

Happy Daylight Savings Time (U.S.) to you! Big things happened in the world of HPC-AI last week….

Quantum: D-Wave Reports Calibration of 4,400+ Qubit Processor  

PALO ALTO, Calif. – November 6, 2024 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), a quantum computing systems, software and services company, today announced that it has completed the calibration and benchmarking of a 4,400+ qubit Advantage2 processor. The latest Advantage2 processor shows performance gains over the current Advantage system in solving customers’ complex computational problems […]

D-Wave Announces Appointment of Two New Board Members

PALO ALTO, Calif. — October 30, 2024 — D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today announced the appointments of John DiLullo and Rohit Ghai, to its board of directors. John DiLullo currently serves as chief executive officer at Deepwatch, a leading managed security platform for cyber resilient enterprises. With a track record spanning more than 30 […]

D-Wave Announces Roadmap for Quantum Cloud Service for AI/ML

PALO ALTO, Calif. – July 29, 2024 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. today announced it is strengthening the connection between quantum optimization, artificial intelligence and machine learning by extending its product development roadmap with enhancements to the Leap quantum cloud service that the company said will bring  quantum AI solutions to market. The roadmap is intended […]

Zapata AI and D-Wave Quantum Announce Expanded Partnership for Generative AI

BOSTON and PALO ALTO, CA — July 8, 2024 — Zapata Computing Holdings Inc. (“Zapata AI”) (Nasdaq: ZPTA), an industrial generative AI software solutions company, and D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today announced a expansion to their joint commercial partnership, designed to accelerate the development and delivery of integrated quantum and generative AI solutions in D‑Wave’s […]

D-Wave Introduces Hybrid Quantum Solver

PALO ALTO, Calif. – June 17, 2024 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) announced today at its Qubits 2024 user conference the launch of a new hybrid quantum solver for nonlinear programs, designed to enable customers to confront problems of growing complexity, according to the company. Available now through D-Wave’s Leap™ quantum cloud service, D-Wave […]

Quantum: D-Wave Introduces Anneal Feature

PALO ALTO, Calif – April 18, 2024 — Quantum computing company D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) 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), […]

D-Wave Announces Availability of 1,200+ Qubit Advantage2 Prototype

PALO ALTO, Calif., BURNABY, B.C., — February 12, 2024 — Quantum computing company D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) has announced that the 1,200+ qubit Advantage2 prototype is now available via the company’s Leap real-time quantum cloud service. Customers with Leap service subscriptions can access the new Advantage2 prototype today, and those new to the Leap service […]