Companies / D-Wave
D-Wave
The annealing pioneer. Commercial machines for years, thousands of qubits, and an honest asterisk: annealing is purpose-built for optimization, not universal gate-model computing.
Profile
| Modality | Quantum annealing — Analog evolution toward low-energy solutions (a distinct paradigm, not gate-based) |
| Status | public · QBTS |
| Founded | to verify: not published until checked against primary sources |
| Headquarters | to verify: not published until checked against primary sources |
Public milestones
No milestones are listed yet. Milestone claims are only published here with an evidence tag (peer-reviewed / preprint / vendor / disputed) and a primary source: entries are added as they are verified, never generated.
The modality it bets on
Strengths: Commercial access; Large device sizes. Challenges: Not equivalent to universal gate-model computing; Advantage is problem-specific.
Investor lens: a company profile is not a recommendation. The diligence questions that matter (differentiation, full-stack dependencies, manufacturing path, benchmark transparency) are on Evaluating claims.