Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited is a Canadian quantum computing company that develops photonic quantum computers and the software tools used to program them. Its technology is designed to use light particles, or photons, to perform quantum computations and support applications across areas such as materials science, drug discovery, finance and artificial intelligence.
The company provides access to its quantum hardware through cloud-based services and develops PennyLane, an open-source software framework for quantum machine learning, quantum chemistry and quantum computing. Xanadu has also developed photonic quantum computing systems, including Borealis, and continues to work on scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures.
Founded in 2016, Xanadu is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, and serves researchers, developers, businesses and other organizations internationally through its software, hardware and cloud offerings. The company was founded and is led by Christian Weedbrook, who serves as chief executive officer.
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