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Re:Insert D-Wave Post Here by deepnotderp on Thursday March 16, 2017 @01:16PM (#13886818)
Most of those organizations are happy to dump $1 million into something with so much potential power on the off-chance that it turns out to work. In fact, if I was in charge of Google, and understood the extremely tiny chance that D-Wave is legit, I would still dump in money, because the tiny chance it works still makes it worth it.
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Re:Insert D-Wave Post Here by monktastic1 on Thursday March 16, 2017 @02:17PM (#13887446)
But they (in particular, Google) also have experts in quantum physics and computing on staff, so they're much better equipped than most to determine the validity of the claim.
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Re:Insert D-Wave Post Here by QCman on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:26PM (#13888273)
The actual price for a D-Wave machine is more than $10M. It's a good sign that the first customers have continued their support by upgrading to the newer models.
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