Sundar Pichai announces quantum milestone as Google’s Willow Chip beats world’s fastest supercomputers

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday, October 22, announced a major breakthrough in quantum computing, revealing that the company’s Willow chip has achieved the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage, marking a milestone toward real-world applications of the technology.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Pichai said, “New breakthrough quantum algorithm published in @Nature today: Our Willow chip has achieved the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage.”

According to Pichai, Google’s newly developed algorithm, called Quantum Echoes, ran 13,000…