Anthropic: Claude Designed Quantum Circuits That Beat Published Best by an Order of Magnitude
AnthropicAI · x · 2026-10-17
Anthropic's STEM Fellows Program reports that Claude, given plain-language specs for eight quantum circuits (chemistry, optimization, physics simulation, number theory) plus an automated evaluator, largely worked on its own to find designs improving on the best published circuits—sometimes by an order of magnitude or more.
Such gains cut the quantum resources needed for useful algorithms, potentially bringing practical quantum applications in chemistry and materials science closer. Led by Andi Gu, mentored by quantum physicist Alek Kemeny, in collaboration with Susanne Yelin and Mikhail Lukin (Harvard/QuEra). Full paper on arXiv.
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