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The two technologies look more complementary than rivalrous
D-Wave quantum computers tested by Google-NASA in 2013 underperformed GPUs for machine-learning training, per Nature Physics. Quantum and AI will prove complementary in enterprise stacks, dividing workloads by strengths rather than competing.
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