D-Wave Updates Stride Hybrid Solver With Faster Optimization Performance

Insider Brief

• D-Wave has upgraded its Stride hybrid solver, reporting improvements in solution quality and execution time across optimization benchmarks.
• In traveling salesperson benchmarks, the enhanced solver produced solutions averaging within 0.02% of the best possible result for problems with up to 10,000 locations in 15 seconds.
• D-Wave has also launched a three-course Applied Quantum Optimization learning path covering use-case identification, mathematical modeling and application development with Stride.

PRESS RELEASE — D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ: QBTS) (“D-Wave” or the “Company”), the only dual-platform quantum computing company providing both annealing and gate-model systems, software and services, today announced powerful performance enhancements to its Stride™ hybrid solver. In key benchmark testing, the enhanced solver found better solutions in 15 seconds than the previous version found in 120 seconds. In addition, the Company also launched a new, three-course Applied Quantum Optimization learning path to accelerate hybrid-quantum optimization adoption. Together, the enhanced solver and training courses further equip developers to apply quantum optimization to complex, real-world business challenges.