Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip

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Dec 92024

The Google Quantum AI team is proud to announce Willow, our latest quantum chip. Willow has state-of-the-art performance across a number of metrics, enabling two major achievements. First, Willow can reduce errors exponentially as quantum processors scale up using more qubits. This cracks a key challenge in quantum error correction that the field has pursued for almost 30 years. Second, Willow performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s most powerful supercomputers 10 septillion years! That is 10^25 or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years — a number that vastly exceeds the age of the universe. With these and other breakthroughs, the Willow chip is a major step toward building a useful, large-scale quantum computer that could harness quantum mechanics by advancing scientific discovery and tackling some of society's greatest challenges. Hear directly from Director of Hardware, Julian Kelly, who leads the Google Quantum AI team driving this groundbreaking research. Additional Resources:

Explore the full publication in Nature → https://goo.gle/3VoqLka
Read more on The Keyword → https://goo.gle/3Bik6Bk
Get the technical details from the Quantum AI team → https://goo.gle/3ZCPNyB
Read about our new free Coursera course on quantum error correction → https://goo.gle/3DdRjyc
Learn more about our roadmap → https://goo.gle/3Vtk9AY