Error correction stopped being a promise in 2026 — 96 logical qubits, an 800× logical-to-physical gap, a 2:1 encoding ratio. The machine that breaks RSA still needs thousands of logical qubits. A read of every quantum number this tracker holds.
For decades, adding qubits added errors faster than you could correct them. “Below threshold” is the turning point where making the code bigger makes it more reliable — the precondition for a useful machine.
A 6,100-qubit array and 96 logical qubits sound contradictory until you know the difference. Physical qubits are the raw, noisy hardware; logical qubits are many physical ones error-corrected into one reliable unit. The second number is the one that matters.