Google’s Willow Driving Quantum Forward: Can compute in 5 minutes what the world’s fastest supercomputer would take 10 septillion years

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Google made an announcement which depending on which news outlet you heard about it may or may not have been that exciting. Long story short, it can compute in 5 minutes what the fastest supercomputer would take 10 septillion years to process.

What this really means is that AI can progress faster.

  • The first is that Willow can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits. This cracks a key challenge in quantum error correction that the field has pursued for almost 30 years.
  • Second, Willow performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion (that is, 1025) years — a number that vastly exceeds the age of the Universe.

Above: The official statement from Google about their new Willow chip.

Watch the official video here: