Claude designs quantum circuits beating best published ones, sometimes 10x
eyishazyer · x · 2026-10-17
Anthropic's STEM Fellows Program reports that given plain-language instructions, Claude designed quantum circuits that improve on the best published ones, sometimes by an order of magnitude or more. Commenters note that if this holds up, it compresses years of quantum research into months; more efficient circuits reduce resources needed by quantum algorithms, mattering for chemistry and materials science.
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