Google is turning heads—including that of world’s richest man, Elon Musk—with the announcement of its new quantum chip, called Willow.
In a Monday blog post, Hartmut Neven, founder and lead for Google Quantum AI, said the Willow chip paves the way for a full-scale quantum computer that can “benefit society by advancing scientific discovery, developing helpful applications, and tackling some of society’s greatest challenges.”
After Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced Willow on social media, X CEO Elon Musk responded with a “wow” and engaged in a back and forth with Pichai, who said, “We should do a quantum cluster in space with Starship one day
.”
To break Willow down in simple terms: A quantum chip, like the one developed here by Google, can perform computations that would take regular computers longer than the age of the universe to execute. Benchmarks, for those unfamiliar, are challenges that all computers try to solve to help us humans understand which one is the fastest, or best, at solving a particular problem.
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In a Monday blog post, Hartmut Neven, founder and lead for Google Quantum AI, said the Willow chip paves the way for a full-scale quantum computer that can “benefit society by advancing scientific discovery, developing helpful applications, and tackling some of society’s greatest challenges.”
After Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced Willow on social media, X CEO Elon Musk responded with a “wow” and engaged in a back and forth with Pichai, who said, “We should do a quantum cluster in space with Starship one day
.”Why is Willow so special?
To break Willow down in simple terms: A quantum chip, like the one developed here by Google, can perform computations that would take regular computers longer than the age of the universe to execute. Benchmarks, for those unfamiliar, are challenges that all computers try to solve to help us humans understand which one is the fastest, or best, at solving a particular problem.
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Google claims Willow can solve puzzles that would take regular computers longer than the age of the universe to figure out.