[8][9][10] Xanadu was founded in 2016 by Christian Weedbrook and was a participant in the Creative Destruction Lab's accelerator program.

[21] Xanadu's hardware efforts have been focused on developing programmable Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) devices.

[28] In June 2022 Xanadu reported on a boson sampling experiment summing up to those of Google and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

Their setup used loops of optical fiber and multiplexing to replace the network of beam splitters by a single one which made it also more easily reconfigurable.

This work, published in Nature, introduced key architectural improvements for integrating multiple photonic quantum processors, significantly enhancing error correction and scalability.