India has GDP-defining sectors sitting at a fraction of their potential.
Manufacturing. Tourism. Medical tourism.
We have the talent, the cost advantage, the heritage. And we still lose to smaller countries on every one of them.
Why? Corrupt, ineffective governance. And a population with zero civic sense that trashes the very things tourists would come to see.
It is a tragedy.
What a day at @eigenlabs.
@bbuddha_xyz launched an open competition for researchers, autoresearchers, and agents to beat Google’s quantum circuit benchmark.
Then @gajesh pushed the score from 10.8B to 2.74B gate-qubit product, beating Google’s unpublished 3B target by 8.5%.
We have been trending across Twitter since the launch.
But what stayed with me most is something else.
This is the first time I have seen @sreeramkannan’s thesis around human and agent coordination play out this clearly in public.
Open benchmark. Young researchers. AI agents. Internet-scale coordination. A frontier moving in real time.
Absolutely privileged to have a front-row seat to this.
One of the coolest things I've seen in a while (h/t @eigenlabs), and the clearest demonstration yet that AI is pulling Q-Day forward: a crowdsourced, open-research competition to optimize the Google ECDLP circuit, the best known approach for breaking ECDSA with a quantum computer.
In March, Google Quantum AI published a paper on the quantum threat to Bitcoin and other digital assets. Notably, they referenced, but did not reveal, the circuit used in their resource estimate. Instead, they used a zero-knowledge proof to show they had compiled it without revealing its layout.
Two months later, that circuit is no longer state of the art. On ecdsa dot fail, anyone can take a baseline circuit and try to beat the Google benchmark. The current leading submission doesn't just meet it; it exceeds it (as of this writing) by 13.3% on the core metric (logical qubits times Toffoli gates).
And these aren't results from a national lab or a leading technology company. Experts and amateurs are working side by side, including AI-driven "autoresearch" from people who aren't cryptographers. Even teenagers are participating.
Circuit design is only one piece. The same open, AI-assisted method can be aimed at error correction, decoding algorithms, and every other layer of the stack. Optimized in parallel, by anyone, continuously.
This is what the timeline debates keep missing. Q-Day doesn't depend on one breakthrough, at one company, on one roadmap. It's being chipped away at an accelerating rate by a distributed, disconnected group of people, both inside the industry and outside it.
It's a great demonstration of the power of AI to accelerate scientific progress, but also a reminder of the accelerationist reality we live in.
From a cybersecurity perspective, it means Q-Day timelines are only going to move up, not back, from here.
A 23 and 18 year old just out-researched Google's secret quantum lab
Bitcoin was the test. Biology, neuroscience, and genomics are next
Science belongs to everyone now
@sreeramkannan@bbuddha_xyz@MTSlive