Google’s new quantum chip has solved a problem the best supercomputer would have taken a quadrillion times the age of the universe to crack
Google’s new 105-qubit “Willow” quantum processor has surpassed a key milestone first proposed in 1995 — with errors now reducing exponentially as you scale up quantum computers.
Google scientists have created a new quantum processor that, in five minutes, cracked a problem that would have taken the world’s best supercomputer 10 septillion years to solve. The breakthrough will allow quantum computers to become less error-prone the bigger they get, achieving a milestone that overcomes a decades-long obstacle.
Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field. In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would…
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) December 9, 2024
Wow
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2024
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