The launch coincides with Google's ongoing DOJ back and forth. In August, a federal judge ruled that Google's search engine practices violated antitrust laws, labeling the company an illegal monopoly. The DOJ has proposed remedies that could include the divestiture of key assets such as the Chrome browser and the Android operating system.

In 2019, Google previously did a quantum computation in 200 seconds that would have taken the fastest supercomputer at that time 10,000 years. But IBM dismissed its claims, arguing that a classical computer could do the same calculation with greater "fidelity" in 2.5 days and argued that "quantum supremacy" had yet to be achieved.