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Alphabet Has a Second, Secretive Quantum Computing Team

Alphabet Has a Second, Secretive Quantum Computing Team

Alphabet Has a Second, Secretive Quantum Computing Team

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

February 4, 20209m 26s

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In October, Google celebrated a breakthrough that CEO Sundar Pichai likened to the Wright brothers’ first flight. Company researchers in Santa Barbara, California, 300 miles from the Googleplex, had achieved quantum supremacy—the moment that a quantum computer performs a calculation impossible for any conventional computer.

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