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- #5911
Most of Kalai’s post re-analyzes Google’s 2019 experiment, which was long ago superseded anyway. Since then, several other experiments, some by other groups, such as USTC’s and Quantinuum’s, challenge his position, so it no longer rests on Google’s claims alone.