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Especially if you consider how they choose the words and how they can be interpreted

" Second, Willow performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s "

Standard benchmark in what sense. Well, it was chosen for task where quantum computer would have better performance.

I am not saying this is nothing. Maybe, use more reserved words, e.g. "special quantum oriented benchmark" or something.

When I think of standard benchmark, I am thinking more common scenarios, e.g. searching, sorting, matrix multiplication.