# Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip

<https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/>

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## What Jamie wrote

It is certainly a "moon shot" for Google to be working on this. IBM is the one that is usually making noise about quantum computing. Cool milestone…

> Second, Willow performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion (that is, 10^25) years — a number that vastly exceeds the age of the Universe.

Quantum, AI, Crypto — these are all long bets that I suspect we will see come to fruition over the next couple decades. We are already well down the way with AI and Crypto isn't far behind.

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