D-Wave Awarded National Research Council of Canada Funding to Advance Commercial Annealing Quantum Computing
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A CAD $300,000 NRC grant to D‑Wave is small in dollars but notable as a targeted bet on annealing for commercial use, not just gate-model research. Enterprise teams experimenting with optimization problems now have more reason to keep annealing on the radar as a near-term complement to classical solvers.
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