Google captivated the tech world Monday with Willow, a new quantum chip that outperformed even the world’s best supercomputer on an advanced test, and experts say this week’s revelations are just the start of a new phase in cutting-edge computing.
The new chip, which wowed even Tesla CEO Elon Musk, can complete in five minutes a complex computation that would take the most powerful supercomputer 10 septillion years—more than the estimated age of the universe, wrote Hartmut Neven, the founder and leader of Google Quantum AI, in a blog post.
