What Google’s Willow chip means for the future of quantum computing, AI, and encryption

Google has announced that it has achieved a major breakthrough in quantum computing, possibly nudging the technology from the conceptual towards the practical.

For the first time ever, the tech giant said it has developed a state-of-the-art quantum computing chip called Willow that solved in under five minutes a computation so complex, it would have taken a supercomputer around 10 septillion (10^25) years to complete.