Life & fun · December 10, 2024
Google Willow
State-of-the-art quantum chip
Google Willow launched on December 10, 2024 with 219 votes, #171 of 5,365 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
Meet Willow, our newest quantum chip. In under 5 minutes, it's able to perform a benchmark computation that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years. (That's greater than the age of the universe!)
Our new quantum chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.
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