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Google Quantum AI claims 100 logical qubits in error-corrected demo; Meta Llama 5 open weights land with 405B MoE option

31 Aug 2026

A calm edition of the prior 24 hours — 2 briefings in chapters, with links back to sources and the live feed — about 2 min to read.

AI Chapter

Meta Llama 5 open weights land with 405B MoE option

The release includes a dense 70B and a sparse Mixture-of-Experts tier.

Why it matters Open 405B MoE weights keep large-model competition from locking entirely behind closed APIs.

Emerging Chapter

Google Quantum AI claims 100 logical qubits in error-corrected demo

Surface-code experiments cut error rates below break-even on a Willow-class processor.

Why it matters Logical qubits past break-even are the error-correction milestone chemistry sims still need more of.