What changed

Anthropic reports improved designs, with occasional human prompts to broaden the search.

Source: Anthropic quantum circuit research report

Our analysis

Builder’s view: freeze correctness tests before optimizing a software task, then compare resource use only among passing outputs. A cheaper invalid answer should never win.

Keep in mind

These are circuit-resource estimates, not demonstrated hardware advantage. We have not reproduced the results.

Source: Anthropic quantum circuit research report

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Article updated: 17 Oct 2026

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