Google CEO: Today's quantum computing reminds me of AI in 2010

As Morgan Stanley mentioned in its outlook on the top 10 investment trends for 2025, quantum computing is a "known unknown," and its long-term impact could be profound. Google also has high hopes for quantum computing.

At the World Government Summit held in Dubai on February 12, Google CEO Sundar Pichai compared this groundbreaking technology to artificial intelligence technology from a decade ago.

Pichai stated:

The progress in quantum computing reminds me of the work and initial progress we made on the Google Brain project in the 2010s.

Currently, governments and numerous companies are committing billions of dollars to quantum computing research, competing to advance this future technology. Quantum computers can significantly enhance data processing speed and capacity, allowing for more accurate simulations of complex systems, predictions of outcomes in different scenarios, and making breakthroughs in current encryption systems possible.

But as Pichai pointed out, it will take another 5 to 10 years for quantum computers to become "practically useful." At present, quantum computing technology is still primarily in the research phase, and there is debate about when it will be widely applicable. In January, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated that truly "useful" quantum computers might still take decades to emerge, a remark that led to a significant drop in quantum-related stocks at the time.

Pichai also mentioned Google's latest breakthroughs in quantum chip technology, where researchers used this technology to compute the answer to a problem in 5 minutes, while it could take "longer than the existence of the universe" using current supercomputers:

The progress in the quantum field is incredibly exciting