Google demonstrates magic state cultivation on Willow, cutting errors by about 40-fold
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Google Quantum AI said on October 15, 2026, that it has shown "magic state cultivation" working in practice on its Willow processor, reducing errors about 40-fold compared with uncultivated states. The result, published in Science, is a crucial step toward scaling quantum computing to practical use.
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