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Google says "magic state cultivation" works in practice on its Willow quantum processor, calling it a breakthrough that reduces errors by about 40x (Google)

We've shown that magic state cultivation works on Google Quantum AI hardware. — Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI Quantum Software Engineer, Google Quantum AI

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