D-Wave Quantum Inc. and Zapata Computing, Inc. have 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. 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.

Bringing together the deep technical expertise of two industry leaders in quantum computing and generative AI, this collaboration gives Zapata AI access to D-Wave's powerful Advantage?? annealing quantum computing systems, quantum-hybrid solvers, and development resources. The companies anticipate this joint effort will accelerate commercial application development as well as provide the production access and resources to take these applications to Zapata's customers.

The collaboration also supports joint go-to-market efforts that will include the exclusive availability of the commercial applications via a solver hosted in D-Wave's Leap?? real-time quantum cloud service.