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The path to building a useful quantum computer is becoming more clear, and my colleagues on our Google Quantum AI team shared an important and exciting step forward today in the results we published in Nature for Willow, our new state-of-the-art Quantum chip. Willow is the first quantum processor where error-corrected qubits get exponentially better as they get bigger. As my colleague Hartmut Neven shared today, this is exciting for two reasons: “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, 10^25) years — a number that vastly exceeds the age of the Universe.” The breakthrough Willow represents is exciting as its performance and ability to exponentially reduce errors brings us closer to unlocking the power of quantum mechanics for real-world applications - more still to do though! Learn more about Willow and its breakthrough achievements on the Google blog here: https://lnkd.in/gVGxFwA8 You can also read our Nature paper here: https://lnkd.in/g_Xti6aH