D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE:QBTS) CEO Alan Baratz is turning up the heat on Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA), arguing that quantum computing is poised to challenge the GPU giant's dominance in artificial intelligence. 

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Speaking to Yahoo Finance at the Semafor World Economy Summit, Baratz said: "If I was Nvidia, I'd be shaking in my boots," framing quantum as the next wave of compute power that could eventually undercut traditional AI accelerators. 

His comments come as both companies court investors eager to bet on what comes after today's GPU-driven AI boom.

D-Wave Builds the Future

Baratz has long argued that D-Wave is moving quantum beyond lab experiments and into commercial use cases, where complex problems can be reframed for its annealing-based systems. 

At the Semafor event, he is positioning quantum computing not as a distant science project, but as a tool that enterprises can begin integrating alongside classical AI today. 

"Those that act now will define the next era of advantage in ...