D-Wave Systems Inc. is a quantum computing company focused on building and commercializing quantum annealing systems and related software for optimization and sampling problems. It offers cloud access to its quantum computers and hybrid quantum-classical tools aimed at helping enterprises and researchers develop and run quantum applications.
D-Wave’s strategy centers on delivering near-term quantum advantage for optimization via quantum annealing, packaged as a cloud platform with developer tooling and hybrid solvers that combine classical and quantum resources. The company emphasizes practical enterprise use cases (e.g., scheduling, routing, portfolio optimization) and ecosystem partnerships to accelerate application development.
D-Wave systems are available via AWS’s Amazon Braket quantum computing service, enabling customers to access D-Wave through AWS’s managed quantum platform.
D-Wave has been offered through Microsoft’s Azure Quantum ecosystem, providing access to D-Wave solvers via Azure’s quantum cloud services.