D-Wave brought the first commercially available quantum computer to market in 2011 with its breakthrough 128-qubit quantum computer using annealing technology. The company's latest quantum computer, released in September 2000, now comprises 5,000 qubits, and these devices are already solving complex optimization, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and simulation problems for companies such as Volkswagen and Lockheed Martin D-Wave also operates its own quantum cloud service and offers access to its hardware via cloud solutions from other companies such as Amazon Web Services 1Qbit’s. D-Wave also formed partnerships with NEC Australia and the Australian Department of Defence in 2011.

Earlier this year, Yuzuha Oka, a journalist with NewsPicks—a sister company of SPEEDA Edge—interviewed D-Wave CEO Alan Baratz to find out more about the practical applications of quantum computing that are currently being. This conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity and is presented in English by SPEEDA Edge for the first time.