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:
