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PennyLane is an open-source quantum software platform for quantum computing, quantum machine learning, and quantum chemistry. Create meaningful quantum algorithms, from inspiration to implementation.

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Create and test quantum algorithms for computing and machine learning using a user-friendly platform.

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PennyLane is an open-source quantum software platform for quantum computing, quantum machine learning, and quantum chemistry. Create meaningful quantum algorithms, from inspiration to implementation.

pennylane has 3.3k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 834 times. pennylane is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2018. pennylane is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are autograd, automatic-differentiation, cirq, deep-learning.

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What is pennylane?

PennyLane is an open-source quantum software platform for quantum computing, quantum machine learning, and quantum chemistry. Create meaningful quantum algorithms, from inspiration to implementation.

Is pennylane open source?

pennylane is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

Is pennylane free?

Yes. pennylane is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What license does pennylane use?

pennylane is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

What language is pennylane written in?

pennylane is written mainly in Python.

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