Regardless, it is unlikely to be a game-changer for the stock in the near term. D-Wave Quantum remains a capital-intensive company with very little revenue. It will remain a high-risk dilutive investment for the foreseeable future.

D-Wave Quantum Inc. said today a peer-reviewed scientific paper proves it has finally passed a critical threshold and achieved “quantum supremacy” — that is, the point at which its quantum computers have finally solved a problem that’s impossible for even the most powerful “classical” computers to do.

The company says it has solved the first problem of scientific relevance with a quantum processor faster than could be done with classical computers—but others disagree