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Xanadu
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Xanadu is a Canadian quantum technology company with the mission to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere. Founded in 2016, Xanadu is building towards a universal quantum computer using silicon photonic hardware and offers users access to near-term quantum devices through the Xanadu Cloud. The company also leads the development of PennyLane, an open-source software library for quantum machine learning and application development.