India, Feb. 20 -- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Wednesday announced that his firm has created an "entirely new state of matter" with the launch of Majorana 1, the world's first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture.

The world's richest man Elon Musk responded to Satya Nadella's announcement post on X and said, "More and more breakthroughs with quantum computing."

Following Musk's remark, the Indian-origin CEO said, "Exciting, right? We think this could be quantum's transistor moment.Just think of the implications for battery chemistry!" Nadella went on to congratulate Musk on the recent launch of Grok 3, the latter's company xAI's latest AI chatbot.

Majorana 1 is a quantum computing chip that is being called as a...