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Building upon the principles of thermodynamics, thermodynamic computing leverages noise as a computational asset even further. Startups such as Extropic are pioneering this landscape, applying insights from the second law of thermodynamics to create stable, energy-efficient computational devices. By utilizing Josephson junctions—superconducting circuits that yield significant levels of fluctuation—these systems can explore myriad states to arrive at an optimal solution.