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I Held Google's Willow Chip — What Quantum Means for the Future of AI

Name: I Held Google's Willow Chip — What Quantum Means for the Future of AI
Uploaded: 2025-04-18T09:00:08-07:00
Duration: 1630 s
Description: CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa visits Google’s quantum laboratory and examines the Willow processor through a tour and an interview with the team’s director. Chapters cover the benchmark, competing approaches, quantum computing and AI, and the gap between research progress and useful applications. This is reporting from April 2025: the team’s forecasts and benchmark claims belong to that period.

Original upload Apr 18, 2025 · 27:10

Rows of patterned Fugaku supercomputer cabinets at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science

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Fugaku at RIKEN in Kobe. Classical supercomputing context for computational research, not a quantum processor or a video frame.

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CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa visits Google’s quantum laboratory and examines the Willow processor through a tour and an interview with the team’s director. Chapters cover the benchmark, competing approaches, quantum computing and AI, and the gap between research progress and useful applications. This is reporting from April 2025: the team’s forecasts and benchmark claims belong to that period.

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