After making rapid strides in artificial intelligence (AI), Alphabet’s (GOOG) (GOOGL) Google is now racing ahead into its next big tech frontier, quantum computing. The tech giant first caught attention back in December 2024 when it introduced its “mind-boggling” Willow quantum chip, claiming it could tackle complex problems in just five minutes, tasks that would take even the world’s fastest supercomputers an unbelievable 10 septillion years to complete.
Fast forward to now, and Google has taken an even bigger leap. Its Quantum AI division has achieved the “first-ever verifiable quantum advantage,” marking a major breakthrough toward reaching the first-ever real-world application of quantum computing. Using its “Quantum Echoes” algorithm, the Willow chip performed calculations 13,000 times faster than the classical algorithm in the world's fastest supercomputer.
