While it might seem that your computer malfunctions every few minutes, the reality is that modern computers are usually quite robust. Not so much for quantum computers, where qubit life is often me…

Microsoft's Majorana 2 qubits last 20 seconds vs microseconds for rivals, built with agentic AI. The company now targets a scalable quantum computer by 2029.

Microsoft reported that its Majorana 2 processor achieved topological qubit lifetimes exceeding 20 seconds.