Google Surges 5.6% as Willow Quantum Chip Debuts: Solves a 30-Year Problem

Google CEO announced its Willow quantum chip completed a benchmark task in under five minutes, which would take top supercomputers over 10^25 years—longer than the universe's age. Key breakthroughs include exponential error reduction and performance far surpassing supercomputers.

Willow excels in quantum error correction and random circuit sampling (RCS), which Google argues should be the universal metric for quantum performance. IBM and Honeywell favor quantum volume, which Willow’s spec sheet notably omits.