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A D-Wave Two annealing system inside the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility. D-Wave annealing public QBTS 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.

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