By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management

Industrialists:

"We see Willow as an important step in our journey to build a useful quantum computer with practical applications in areas like drug discovery, fusion energy, battery design + more,” wrote Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, on X. Despite Google’s remarkable advances, the promise of practical applications for quantum computing resides in countless possible realities, just not the present. Skeptics seem to think it’ll take years, as in a few, not a septillion. Elon responded to Sundar with one word, “Wow”. And this led to a discussion between the two.