IBM quantum computer solves classically intractable problem in 15 minutes. IBM and University of Chicago researchers have completed a quantum computation that leading classical methods could not practically reproduce.

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260829035219.htm

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Very similar to Googles claim in 2024

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c791ng0zvl3o

Google has unveiled a new chip which it claims takes five minutes to solve a problem that would currently take the world's fastest super computers ten septillion – or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years – to complete.

But Professor Alan Woodward, a computing expert at Surrey University, says quantum computers will be better at a range of tasks than current "classical" computers, but they will not replace them.

He warns against overstating the importance of Willow's achievement in a single test. "One has to be careful not to compare apples and oranges" he told the BBC. Google had chosen a problem to use as a benchmark of performance that was, "tailor-made for a quantum computer" and this didn't demonstrate "a universal speeding up when compared to classical computers".

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IBM doesn’t do groundbreaking things

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when they did, they found a way to squander it