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Google's new quantum computer may launch an AI arms race

And today's digital computing will give way to something 100 million times faster

Published Mon, Dec 28, 2015 · 09:50 PM

San Francisco

EVER since the 1980s, researchers have been working on the development of a quantum computer that would be exponentially more powerful than any of the digital computers that exist today. And now Google, in collaboration with Nasa, says it has a quantum computer - the D-Wave 2X - that works.

Google claims the D-Wave 2X is…