ClarificationMay 26, 2026, 02:11 PM
D-Wave Quantum: Quantum supremacy result stands against new claims
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D-Wave Quantum Inc. issued a response to recent claims that newly published classical simulation work has "overturned" its demonstration of quantum computational supremacy in quantum simulation. The company stated that these claims are inaccurate and not supported by the scientific record. D-Wave clarified that the new work does not reproduce the full scope of its peer-reviewed Science result, nor does it solve the hardest problem instances. CEO Dr. Alan Baratz affirmed that D-Wave's beyond-classical computation continues to hold up under careful scientific scrutiny, welcoming advances in classical methods but refuting claims of overturning their results.
Key Highlights
- D-Wave Quantum Inc. refutes claims that its demonstration of quantum computational supremacy has been overturned.
- The company states that newly published classical simulation work does not reproduce the full scope of D-Wave's peer-reviewed Science result.
- The new work also fails to solve the hardest problem instances and measurements reported by D-Wave.
- CEO Dr. Alan Baratz asserts that D-Wave's beyond-classical computation continues to hold up under scientific scrutiny.
- D-Wave welcomes advances in classical methods but maintains that claims of overturning their results are inaccurate.
- The Flatiron Institute's BP-TNS algorithm is effective in some regimes but not across the full range of problem classes studied by D-Wave.
- D-Wave's analysis showed BP-TNS fails for strongly coupled 3D spin glasses on cubic and diamond lattices, and for higher-dimensional biclique problems.
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