We're going to the quantum verse.

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I'm Ricky Mulvey, joined today by Nick Seiple.

Nick, good to see you.

Great to be here with you, Ricky.

Let's get into this Google announcement, which is a little

tough to parse through anytime you're talking about quantum processes, but Alphabet announced

a new quantum computing chip called Willow. The stock has jumped about 12% over the past week,

as Wall Street analysts pretend to understand quantum science. Now the stock is in an all-time high.

Google reporting that, quote, Willow performed a standard benchmark computation in under five

minutes that would take one of today's fastest supercomputers, 10 septillion, that is 10 to the 25

years. We're getting into some logarithmic math there. Sounds like this thing

can get all the Bitcoin at once, Nick, but what does Google want from this research?

Sure. I think Google just wants to stay on the cutting edge of new computing technology. As you laid

out here, these quantum computers have the promise if they reach commercialization to do calculations

that today's existing computers couldn't do in the entire history of the universe if you

kind of stretch out the time there. So just trying to push forward the state of the art of science

as Google has done with their AI investments in the past and other places. This is one of the big

focuses that Google has outside of

their core business to just invest in innovation. And for those who are unfamiliar with this game,

and none of us are going to pretend to be quantum experts here, I don't want to put words in your

mouth, Nick. But what can a quantum computer do that's so much better than a regular computer?

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