From the article:

> in partnership with The University of California, Berkeley, we ran the Quantum Echoes algorithm on our Willow chip...

And the author affiliations in the Nature paper include:

Princeton University; UC Berkeley; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Caltech; Harvard; UC Santa Barbara; University of Connecticut; UC Santa Barbara; MIT; UC Riverside; Dartmouth College; Max Planck Institute.

This is very much in partnership with universities and they clearly state that too.