Japan Tobacco and D-Wave Announce Quantum Proof-of-Concept Outperforms Classical Results for LLM Training in Drug Discovery
D-Wave Quantum Inc. Common Shares (QBTS)
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Quantum computing project aims to enhance the speed and quality of drug development processes to create first-in-class small molecule pharmaceuticals PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) (“D-Wave” or the “Company”), a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, and the pharmaceutical division of Japan Tobacco Inc. (“JT”) today announced the completion of a joint proof-of-concept project that used quantum computing technology and artificial intelligence (AI) in the drug discovery process. JT and D-Wave enhanced large language models (LLMs) with a quantum-hybrid workflow to increase their generative capabilities and enable JT to produce novel, more "drug-like" molecular structures beyond those found in the training datasets for the quantum-hybrid generative AI system.The work demonstrated that LLM hybrid models that used classical computation together with D-Wave’s quantum processing unit (QPU) resulted in more valid generated molecule
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