Google uses a specific benchmarking task called RCS to assess its quantum computers’ performance, which Willow excelled at, says Hartmut Neven, also at Google Quantum AI.The task involves ...

In the blog, the founder and lead of Google Quantum AI, Hartmut Neven stated, “Willow was fabricated in our new, state-of-the-art fabrication facility in Santa Barbara - one of only a few ...

In a statement released Monday, Google Quantum AI founder and lead Hartmut Neven said the Willow chip performs state-of-the-art across several metrics.

Hartmut Neven, the founder and lead of Google Quantum AI, stated this week that Willow's extraordinary performance—capable of performing in minutes tasks that would take supercomputers billions ...

Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing: It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10²⁵ or 10 septillion years.

Willow “crushes classical computers on a cosmic timescale,” proclaims one headline; ... According to Hartmut Neven, the founder of Google Quantum AI, “it’s an entry point.

Neven addressed the incident in his Willow announcement: "Of course, as happened after we announced the first beyond-classical computation in 2019, we expect classical computers to keep improving on ...