Google says its Willow chip achieved first-ever “verifiable quantum advantage”

Washington: In a breakthrough towards reaching the first-ever real-world application of quantum computing, Google Quantum AI’s Willow chip has achieved the “first-ever verifiable quantum advantage”, running its ‘Quantum Echoes’ algorithm at a speed 13 thousand faster than the best classical algorithm in the world’s fastest supercomputer.

Sharing the quantum computing breakthrough on X, Google and Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted how the new algorithm can “explain interactions between atoms in a molecule using nuclear magnetic resonance” and also pave the way for future discovery in drugs and materials science.