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D-Wave Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2024 Results

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FY 2024 Bookings up 128% Year over Year
Q4 Bookings up 502% Year over Year
Current Cash Position Exceeds $300 Million

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 13, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) ("D-Wave" or the "Company"), a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, today announced financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter and year ended December 31, 2024.

"Every day D-Wave’s quantum technology is helping customers gain competitive advantages, discover new scientific breakthroughs, and fuel innovations that were previously unimaginable," said Dr. Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave. "Our mission is unwavering - to help organizations realize the benefits of quantum computing now. With record bookings, a record cash position and an unequivocal demonstration of our quantum system outperforming classical on a real-world problem, our progress toward achieving that mission is clear."

Recent Business and Technical Highlights

  • Announced that D-Wave has demonstrated quantum computational supremacy over classical computation on a useful, real-world problem, with peer-reviewed publication of the research in the esteemed journal, Science. The research, which has relevance to customers’ problems in materials discovery, solved the complex materials simulation problem on D-Wave’s Advantage2™ annealing quantum computer prototype significantly faster and with far less power consumption than one of the world’s most powerful classical supercomputers.

  • Introduced an on-premises systems offering to enable customers to push the boundaries of quantum-fueled experimentation, development and usage. Also announced that the Julich Supercomputing Centre is the first high-performance computing (HPC) center to purchase and own a D-Wave Advantage annealing quantum computing system. It is expected that D-Wave’s system will be connected to the JUPITER supercomputer, Europe’s first and only exascale HPC, to facilitate breakthroughs in AI and quantum optimization applications.

  • Announced the "Quantum Uplift" program to address customers’ disappointment with competitor quantum systems that have proven to be incapable of solving practical real-world problems and lack reliable uptime and availability. The program offers incentives to dissatisfied organizations toward the purchase of a D-Wave Advantage system that will enable them to pursue groundbreaking research and novel AI applications.

  • Announced the calibration of a third 4,400 qubit Advantage2 processor. Compared with the current Advantage system, the Advantage2 processor delivers significant performance gains with doubled qubit coherence time, which drives faster time to solution; a 40% increase in energy scale for higher-quality solutions; and increased qubit connectivity from 15-way to 20-way, enabling solutions to larger, more complex problems.

  • Worked with customers on a variety of quantum and hybrid quantum applications including: drug discovery with Japan Tobacco; insurance portfolio optimization with Leithà, the technology and data factory of Unipol, a leading Italian insurance company; and optimization of police vehicle deployment with North Wales Police.

  • Announced a commercial hybrid-quantum application built with Staque that simulates and optimizes movements of autonomous agriculture vehicles. The companies expect the application could have important benefits to farmers as they adopt autonomous agriculture machines in order to scale and increase the output of their fields, with quantum computing providing the analysis, speed, and accuracy to help maximize production and minimize costs.

  • Announced a partnership with Carahsoft Technology Corp., enabling them to co-market D-Wave’s comprehensive solutions to the public sector through Carahsoft’s reseller network. These solutions include real-time access to the D-Wave Advantage™ quantum computing systems through D-Wave’s Leap™ quantum cloud service, workforce training programs to upskill current public sector employees, and specialized support from D-Wave’s professional services team to develop applications for specific public sector use cases.

  • Initiated the Leap Quantum LaunchPad program designed to accelerate the exploration and development of quantum and hybrid-quantum applications. The program is structured as a free 3-month trial that provides access to D-Wave’s production-grade annealing quantum computers and the Leap real-time quantum cloud service as well as expert project support.

  • Launched the new "Quantum Realized" brand campaign to showcase the benefits of today’s quantum computing and presented a framework to help customers evaluate a quantum computing company’s relative value. The campaign will span digital and print advertising channels, events, and the Company’s sponsorship of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, an initiative that aims to raise public awareness about quantum computing.

  • Announced that Qubits 2025, the Company’s annual user conference, will take place March 31, 2025 and April 1, 2025 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Themed "Quantum Realized," the event will feature company executives, customers and industry thought leaders discussing the ways that D-Wave products are delivering tangible value today. Speakers include Charles Payne of Fox Business’s "Making Money with Charles Payne," IDC, Davidson Technologies, Julich Supercomputing Centre, Japan Tobacco, NTT DOCOMO, Pusan National University, Quantum Research Sciences, SAS, the University of Southern California and more.

  • Announced record Bookings for the year ended December 31, 2024, of $23.9 million, an increase of $13.4 million, or 128%, from Bookings of $10.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, and fiscal 2024 fourth quarter Bookings of $18.3 million, an increase of $15.3 million, or 502% from the fiscal 2023 fourth quarter Bookings of $3.0 million.

  • D-Wave’s consolidated cash balance totaled $178.0 million as of December 31, 2024 and is in excess of $300 million as of the date of this earnings press release.