D-Wave, Zapata AI Partner on Quantum-Enabled Machine Learning

Quantum computing company D-Wave and industrial generative AI software company Zapata AI are collaborating to develop and market commercial applications that combine generative AI and quantum computing technologies.

The multi-year partnership intends to focus on developing applications for customers that have computationally complex problems using quantum-enabled machine learning algorithms designed to work on D-Wave’s quantum annealing technologies. This includes its Advantage annealing quantum computing systems, quantum-hybrid solvers and development resources.

Zapata AI and D-Wave initially plan to focus on building quantum generative AI models that aim to accelerate the discovery of new molecules.

The companies consider this use case a way to accelerate commercial application development and develop a pipeline to bring these applications to Zapata’s customers. Customers will be able to access the commercial applications via a solver hosted in D-Wave’s Leap real-time quantum cloud service.

“We’re thrilled to work with our long-time partner D-Wave to bring together the power of our generative AI software with D-Wave’s annealing quantum computing technologies to develop industrial-grade machine learning applications,” said Zapata AI CEO and co-founder Christopher Savoie.

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“By combining forces, we are accelerating quantum plus AI development that we believe will unlock previously unattainable value for customers.”

“Our agreement with Zapata AI marks a significant step toward realizing the potential of combining two of today’s most transformative technologies — generative AI and quantum computing — to help tackle our society’s most computationally complex problems,” added D-Wave CEO Alan Baratz.

“Our companies share a common vision — to accelerate exploration, adoption and commercial use of emerging technologies to fuel innovation and transformation. Together, we believe D-Wave and Zapata AI will usher in the commercial era of quantum machine learning.”