Can you believe this:

Can you believe what Ruth Porat (President and CFO of Alphabet/Google) said.

She highlighted Google's quantum achievements, referencing their Willow chip (unveiled about a year and a half earlier). She said it enabled a computation in less than five minutes (or ~3-5 minutes in accounts) that would have taken the best supercomputer 10 septillion years.

• "Septillion" here means 10^24 (one followed by 24 zeros); the user likely recalled it as "sextillion" (10^21), which is a common mix-up for such huge numbers.
• She tied it to broader impacts like medical breakthroughs, nuclear fusion, and materials science, and emphasized U.S. leadership in quantum tech plus post-quantum cryptography for security.

This was during remarks at the Oval Office event where Trump signed orders to boost quantum computing R&D, aim for practical systems, develop quantum sensors/networks, and migrate government systems to post-quantum cryptography. Other tech leaders (e.g., from IBM) also spoke.

The event built on Google's earlier quantum supremacy claims (e.g., 2019 Sycamore chip), with Willow as a more recent example of massive speedup over classical supercomputers for specific hard problems.

J1D, I sure hope they beef up encryption also. A quantum computer would be able to crack in encryption scheme in minutes, maybe seconds.

https://nitter.poast.org/i/status/2069171719953097192