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Microsoft's quantum chief Zulfi Alam dismisses scientists' skepticism about the company's Majorana quasiparticle evidence, citing commercial sensitivity and the slow pace of peer review, while critics demand raw data and independent verification.

A new peer-reviewed paper in Nature argues that Microsoft's claims of achieving a topological qubit with its Majorana 1 chip were not convincingly demonstrated, suggesting the observed signatures could be from quantum dots instead.

A scientist published a peer-reviewed critique in Nature arguing that Microsoft's quantum computing breakthrough claims are invalid due to basic Python errors and omitted data, suggesting the company's topological quantum computer is far from realization.