D-Wave Quantum, Zapata Computing enter strategic partnership

D-Wave Quantum and Zapata Computing announced a multi-year strategic partnership to develop and bring to market commercial applications that combine the power of generative AI and quantum computing technologies. The partnership centers on joint technical development and commercial deployment of applications for customers faced with computationally complex problems. Using quantum-enabled machine learning algorithms, these applications will leverage the power of D-Wave’s quantum technologies, which have been proven to perform coherent quantum annealing with 5,000+ qubits, pushing beyond the boundaries of what is possible with today’s classical computers. The results of this collaboration will initially focus on building quantum generative AI models that accelerate the discovery of new molecules.