This is not about AlphaQubit. It's about a different paper, https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13687 and they do demonstrate real-time decoding.

> we show that we can maintain below-threshold operation on the 72-qubit processor even when decoding in real time, meeting the strict timing requirements imposed by the processor’s fast 1.1 μs cycle duration

Oh my, I really jumped to a conclusion. And what fantastic news to hear. Thank you!