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Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware

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429 points AbhishekParmar | 2 comments | 22 Oct 25 15:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nashashmi ◴[22 Oct 25 15:38 UTC] No.45670773[source]▶
Before the mega monopolies took over, corps used to partner with universities to conduct this kind of research. Now we have bloated salaries, rich corporations, and expensive research while having under experienced graduates. These costs will get forwarded to the consumer. The future won’t have a lot of things that we have come to expect.
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1. auxiliarymoose ◴[22 Oct 25 16:50 UTC] No.45671876[source]▶
From the article:

> in partnership with The University of California, Berkeley, we ran the Quantum Echoes algorithm on our Willow chip...

And the author affiliations in the Nature paper include:

Princeton University; UC Berkeley; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Caltech; Harvard; UC Santa Barbara; University of Connecticut; UC Santa Barbara; MIT; UC Riverside; Dartmouth College; Max Planck Institute.

This is very much in partnership with universities and they clearly state that too.

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2. nashashmi ◴[22 Oct 25 16:52 UTC] No.45671902[source]▶
Thanks. I could not find any mention of it. This is good.