Skip to navigationSkip to main contentSkip to right columnADVERTISEMENTOpeyemi BabalolaFri, July 31, 2026 at 10:07 PM GMT+2 5 min readIn 2019, Google said it had reached "quantum supremacy."IBM disputed the claim almost immediately, arguing that a properly tuned supercomputer could nearly match the result within days rather than the ten thousand years Google projected, according to CBS News.The fight exposed the field's real weakness. Nobody outside the company making the claim could actually verify it, and that argument has followed quantum computing ever since.On Thursday, IBM ended up on the other side of that same argument. The company announced three separate quantum computing results, with the University of Chicago, Israel's Qedma Quantum Computing, and Italy's Algorithmiq, that it says clear the bar Google never fully reached, according to