Google says it made a major quantum error correction breakthrough, unveils its Willow quantum chip with 105 improved qubits, and shares benchmarks and a roadmap
Is Bitcoin's security at risk? Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider : Willow Wows Elon Musk in X Exchange With Sundar Pichai Mudit Dube / NewsBytes : Google makes quantum computing breakthrough with new Willow chip Brian Buntz / Research & Development World : Google's Willow achieves ‘10 septillion-year’ quantum speedup, though more breakthroughs in fault-tolerance needed Oluwapelumi Adejumo / CryptoSlate : Google's Willow quantum chip brings Bitcoin security debate 10 years closer Marisol Navaro / COINOTAG NEWS : Could Google's Willow Quantum Chip Challenge Bitcoin Security in the Future? Collins J. Okoth / Cryptopolitan : Google reveals new quantum chip, can it crack crypto encryption? David Hollingworth / Cyber Daily : Google reveals quantum computing breakthrough Fiqih Zulkarnain / crypto.news : Google revealed quantum computing chip. Is Bitcoin threatened? Ananya Gairola / Benzinga : Google's Willow Quantum Computing Chip Sparks Stellar Conversation Between Elon Musk And Sundar Pichai: ‘Most Obvious Path Is Staring At Our Eyes’ Asif Razzaq / MarkTechPost : Google Quantum AI Introduces Willow: A New State-of-the-Art Quantum Computing Chip with a Breakthrough that can Reduce Errors Exponentially Anthony Garreffa / TweakTown : Google unveils its state-of-the-art quantum chip, Willow: destroys supercomputers in benchmarks Stephen Katte / Cointelegraph : Google unveils new quantum computing chip: Clock ticking for crypto encryption? Richard Waters / Financial Times : Scientific breakthrough gives new hope to building quantum computers Davide Castelvecchi / Nature : ‘A truly remarkable breakthrough’: Google's new quantum chip achieves accuracy milestone Kaif Shaikh / Interesting Engineering : Google's new quantum chip ‘Willow’ beats supercomputers by 10 septillion years Mark Campbell / OC3D : Google reveals Willow, the Quantum chip that can do the impossible Neil Tyler / New Electronics : Google ‘cracks’ quantum computing challenge with new chip Dave Smith / Fortune : Elon Musk is wowed by Google's new quantum chip, which it claims ‘cracks a key challenge’ that's existed for almost 3 decades Google Research : Making quantum error correction work Physics : Cracking the Challenge of Quantum Error Correction Anissa Gardizy / The Information : Google Announces New Quantum Chip Chris McKay / Maginative : Google's New Quantum Chip “Willow” Surpasses a Crucial Error-Correction Milestone Alison Snyder / Axios : Google's new quantum chip cuts key error rate Dan Garisto / Scientific American : Google's Quantum Computer Makes a Major Breakthrough in Error Correction Phys.org : Google's new quantum chip hits error correction target Chris Vallance / BBC : Google unveils ‘mind-boggling’ quantum computing chip Pradeep Viswanathan / Neowin : Google reveals Willow, a new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip NZ Herald : Scientific breakthrough gives new hope to building quantum computers Jason Nelson / Decrypt : What is Quantum Computing? A Beginner's Guide to the Computer of the Future FinSMEs : Exploring Quantum Computing: The Future Frontier of Software Innovation Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Google's New Willow Chip Crosses Quantum Error Threshold, Surpasses Frontier's Computations Jeffrey Burt / The Next Platform : Google Claims Quantum Error Correction Milestone With “Willow” Chip Britney Nguyen / Quartz : Google says its new quantum chip is septillions of years faster than the world's most powerful supercomputer Keumars Afifi-Sabet / LiveScience : 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 Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE : Google debuts next-gen quantum computing chip with breakthrough error correction X: Sundar Pichai / @sundarpichai : 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 Kevin Rose / @kevinrose : Q: Can Google's Willow crack Bitcoin? Estimates indicate that compromising Bitcoin's encryption would necessitate a quantum computer with approximately 13 million qubits to achieve decryption within a 24-hour period. In contrast, Google's Willow chip, while a significant advancement, comprises 105 qubits. We have a ways to go... Nonetheless, this is a remarkable leap forward in quantum computing. 👏 @geiger_capital : Well... Bitcoin is dead. Fun while it lasted. All of your passwords too. [image] Sundar Pichai / @sundarpichai : We see Willow as an important step in our journey to build a useful quantum computer with practical applications in areas like drug discovery, fusion energy, battery design + more. Details here: https://blog.google/... Elon Musk / @elonmusk : @sundarpichai Wow David Marcus / @davidmarcus : I don't think most people fully understand the significance of this breakthrough. Marty Stenson / @marty_stenson : Sounds like Willow doesnt break Bitcoin, at least for now [image] Jack Butcher / @jackbutcher : a quantum computer just solved a 10^25-year problem in 5 minutes and you're laughing? Dan Garisto / @dangaristo : There's still caveats—only 1 logical qubit, no actual computation, absolute error rate per cycle is 7x per syndrome—but Google's error correction result really is very impressive, and it suggests a real path to fault tolerance. https://www.scientificamerican.com/ ... Karmela Padavic-Callaghan / @kpcallaghan_ : Google's new quantum computing chip Willow holds lots of promise and its error correction capability is a signature result. But the benchmark Google are using for its performance is, as their team told me, still an “IOU” for more practical calculations https://www.newscientist.com/ ... @bloombergtv : Alphabet unveiled a new quantum computer that needs just five minutes to solve a problem that would take supercomputers around 10 septillion years. Here's what Google Vice President of Engineering Hartmut Neven had to say about the new technology https://www.bloomberg.com/... [video] Jeff Dean / @jeffdean : Over a decade ago, Google embarked on a journey to build a useful quantum computer. Today, with our latest quantum chip, Willow, we're closer to harnessing the power of quantum mechanics for real-world impact. Learn more about Willow below ⬇️ https://research.google/... @googleai : Quantum computers offer many promising applications dependent on greatly improved performance. Read how we've combined quantum error correction w/ our latest superconducting processor, Willow, exponentially reducing error rates w/ increasing qubit scale → https://research.google/... [video] Aravind Srinivas / @aravsrinivas : The Willow chip breakthrough is cool! This roadmap from the blog is even more exciting. A few more years of progress can lead to commercially relevant applications for a quantum computer and maybe even applications we haven't conceived yet. Congrats to Hartmut Neven and his team! [image] John Preskill / @preskill : I was thrilled to hear about the surface code when Alexei Kitaev visited @Caltech in April 1997. It's heartening to see the hardware catching up with the theory of quantum error correction. There's still far to go but encouraging progress @GoogleQuantumAI. https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ... Aaron Levie / @levie : Well this quantum thing seems like a big deal [image] Ben Brubaker / @benbenbrubaker : Today in Nature, the first experimental demonstration that scaling up a quantum error-correcting code makes it better. It's a critical step on the path to useful quantum computers. Read more in @QuantaMagazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ... Michael Newman / @mikenewmquantum : Today we're introducing our new quantum chip, Willow! Willow is our first below-threshold quantum processor, which you can now read about in Nature https://t.ly/q7mVH. @KJSatz and I also wrote a blog about it https://t.ly/gEaQA. TLDR: QEC is blasting off. 🚀🚀🚀 [image] @newsfromgoogle : Today in @Nature we published results about Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum chip that demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer. https://blog.google/... Elon Musk / @elonmusk : @levie I've heard from a few people now that quantum computing is showing real promise Andy Parackal / @andyparackal : Oh wow, Google is about to change the game with their new quantum processor, Willow. This is insane a 105-qubit chip that can solve problems in 5 minutes that would take the fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years (yes, years). What's even crazier is that Willow solves one [video] Shaun Maguire / @shaunmmaguire : This is huge! Google demonstrated the first ever quantum computer that seems to pass the “quantum error correction threshold”, providing a path towards large scale quantum machines Congrats to the Google quantum team! @nature : ‘A truly remarkable breakthrough’: Google's new quantum chip achieves accuracy milestone https://go.nature.com/4fcj0VD Wei Dai / @_weidai : Why Google's Willow quantum computing chip is a big step forward and why you (probably) don't have to worry (for now). - It's a big moment for quantum computing: Many applications of quantum computing require logical qubits and Willow demonstrated exponentially decreasing error [image] Trung Phan / @trungtphan : Satoshi Nakamoto seeing Sundar Pichai announce the launch of Willow, a quantum computing chip that can solve “a standard computation in <5 mins that would take a leading supercomputer over 10^25 years, far beyond the age of the universe.” [image] Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer : Google gets a lot of flak but if the goal is to produce quality new technology while still making a lot of money... they seem to be doing very well. Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer : Sundar on stage thinking at DealBook as it's suggested they can't achieve anything anymore we just have the best self-driving cars, the most competitive public company AI model (and authored the seminal generative AI paper), and now apparently by far the best quantum chips Elon Musk / @elonmusk : @sundarpichai That will probably happen. Any self-respecting civilization should at least reach Kardashev Type II. In my opinion, we are currently only at <5% of Type I. To get to ~30%, we would need to place solar panels in all desert or highly arid regions. Sundar Pichai / @sundarpichai : @sama 🙏 , quantum + AI in the multiverse future to come, congrats on the o1 launches too! Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : @sundarpichai But they told me Google was dead. Sam Altman / @sama : big congrats!! Sundar Pichai / @sundarpichai : @elonmusk We should do a quantum cluster in space with Starship one day:) Tero Kuittinen / @teroterotero : Sundar: Our new Quantum chip can finish a calculation in five minutes that supercomputers would spend lifetimes of five universes to complete!! We are like Gods now Me: Refreshing my iPhone email again and again because the newest 2 emails are cut off from the top of the list LinkedIn: Bjarne Philip Tellmann : An incredible step forward in quantum computing from Google's Quantum AI team. Their latest quantum chip, Willow, has performed a computation … Ryan Babbush : Today the Quantum AI team at Google announced our latest generation of quantum chips, named “Willow”. … Philip Richardson Obe : This is truly mind blowing... Willow, Google's newest quantum chip, performed a computation in one minute that would take 10 septillion years on one of the most powerful supercomputers today. … Soufiane Hayou : Nice progress in Quantum Computing from Google. If such chips suceed in performing useful computations, every aspect of the digital world will be affected … Will Grannis : Published in Nature today, Willow, our latest quantum processor, actually reduces errors as we increase qubits...and on benchmarks like Random Circuit Sampling … Forums: Hacker News : Willow, Our Quantum Chip Hacker News : Google Debuts New Quantum Chip, Error Correction Breakthrough, Roadmap Details r/OptimistsUnite : Google announces breakthrough in quantum computing r/google : Google has launched state of the art Quantum chip called Willow r/Destiny : Google's new “Willow” quantum chip has completed a computation that would've taken supercomputers longer than the universe's existence in 5 minutes … r/singularity : Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip - Google r/Futurology : Alphabet's quantum computer solved a problem which would take a supercomputer 17 septillion years to solve r/LinusTechTips : Google's New Quantum Computer Chip ‘Willow’ Solves Septillion-Year Problems in Just 5 Minutes