Google announced a major quantum breakthrough using its Willow chip and the Quantum Echoes algorithm. The new method performed a complex physics task 13,000 times faster than the world’s fastest supercomputer, achieving verifiable quantum advantage.

The Willow processor runs the first verifiable algorithm with real-world applications, marking a shift from theory to practical quantum computing. Google Quantum AI has demonstrated what it describes as a verifiable quantum advantage — running a new ...