Google's Willow quantum chip completed a benchmark in under five minutes ...

Google's Willow quantum chip completed a random circuit sampling benchmark in under five minutes; the company estimates classical simulation would take 10 septillion years, though the benchmark has no known commercial application. The more significant result is Willow's error-correction performance: logical error rates improved by roughly 2x with each step up in code distance, demonstrating progress toward fault-tolerant quantum computing.

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