The "beef" is that, whatever your research is, you already have access to better, faster, cheaper tools. Unless your area of research is "D-Wave machines", I s

The "beef" is that, whatever your research is, you already have access to better, faster, cheaper tools. Unless your area of research is "D-Wave machines", I suppose! Otherwise the computer you typed this comment on is unquestionably better for your area of research than a D-wave machine, because it 1) can solve a thousand times more types of problems and 2) is much faster at the tiny set of problems D-wave machines can address. This is interesting research in an interesting area; it's certainly not a scam. But it's also not what you seem to imagine, doesn't work like you're assuming, isn't useful for what you hope, and shows no signs of being headed in that direction. Yes, 2000 entangled qubits that could be used to solve arbitrary problems would be amazing, but D-Wave isn't making that, isn't claiming to be making that, and doesn't seem to be working on a way to make that.