January 23, 2026 D-Wave has completed its acquisition of Quantum Circuits. The company says the move will accelerate its push toward commercially viable, error-corrected quantum computers and reshape how customers access quantum technology.
“The acquisition of Quantum Circuits marks a watershed moment that firmly establishes D-Wave as the world’s leading quantum computing company,” CEO Alan Baratz said. “By uniquely delivering both best-in-class annealing and gate-model technologies, we are setting the pace for the entire industry. This dual-platform approach will significantly expand the addressable use cases for our customers, with the potential to deliver profound impact across businesses, the scientific community, and governments worldwide.”
The deal brings together two previously separate paths in quantum computing – annealing systems that are already in production use and gate-model machines designed for broader, fault-tolerant computation – under a single company. With the transaction finalized, D-Wave is positioning itself as the first quantum vendor to operate both platforms at scale.
The acquisition adds Quantum Circuits’ gate-model technology to D-Wave’s existing portfolio of commercial annealing systems, including its Advantage2™ quantum computers. Those annealing machines are already deployed by customers and have been used to demonstrate quantum advantage on a real-world materials simulation problem, according to the company.
Quantum Circuits contributes a different piece of the puzzle: superconducting gate-model hardware built around dual-rail qubits, a design intended to make quantum error correction simpler and more efficient. Error correction is widely viewed as one of the biggest barriers to making gate-model quantum computers practical for real-world applications. D-Wave says the dual-rail approach combines the speed of superconducting qubits with the stability associated with ion trap and neutral atom systems. This architecture, the company claims, is unmatched in the industry.
For D-Wave, the appeal is not just technological breadth, but speed. The company expects Quantum Circuits’ hardware-efficient approach to error correction to shorten the timeline to a scaled gate-model quantum computer, while benefiting from D-Wave’s experience in cryogenic systems, control electronics and large-scale quantum deployment.
The merger also reflects a broader shift in the quantum industry, where vendors are under pressure to move beyond laboratory demonstrations and deliver systems that customers can actually use. D-Wave says more than 100 organizations already rely on its quantum systems, submitting over 200 million computational problems across optimization, AI and research workloads via its cloud platform or on-premises installations.
By combining annealing systems that can solve specific optimization problems today with gate-model machines aimed at future, general-purpose quantum computing, D-Wave is betting that customers won’t want to choose between platforms but will expect access to both.
