its good to see
the dwave 2x has been showing upto 600x performance improvement on near optimal solution finding over the highly optimised classical computing software to do the same work.
This is the first time the dwave chips have been showing an improvement over classical computing methods. The first gen systems were slower, the 2nd gen was arguably on par, now this 3rd gen is jumping ahead.
To me I find this to be an interesting and promissing step forward towards the quantum computing industry, I consider it baby steps in an evolving technology (just look at the dawn of silicon classical CPU's).
I am really looking forward to seeing the 3rd Gen Dwave VS GPU solver benchmarks they have promissed.
If NASA, Google and USRA have signed this deal they must think so to. This kit isnt cheap by any stretch of the imgination. Sure these guys have deep pockets, but they don't even think of putting their hands into those pockets unless they think you have something worth buying.