AI Agents Recreate 80% of Google's Quantum Breakthrough

EigenCloud founder Sreeram Kannan announced that two students from his team have used AI Agents to replicate approximately 80% of Google's undisclosed quantum breakthrough over a weekend. According to Foresight News, undergraduate Gautham Anant improved existing quantum cryptography circuits by about twofold, while 18-year-old researcher Gajesh further enhanced the results to reach 80% of Google's undisclosed achievements using a custom Agent cluster. This work focuses on elliptic curve point addition circuits, a core operation in Shor's algorithm for breaking ECDSA, the signature scheme used by Bitcoin and other assets. Sreeram Kannan also launched the first public Quantum ECC Addition Challenge, inviting more participants and their Agents to optimize the results. Future collaborations are planned with Stanford University's Dan Boneh and Ethereum Foundation's Justin Drake to introduce more open challenges in mathematics. Previously, Google's Quantum AI team demonstrated that elliptic curve cryptography could be broken with far fewer resources than expected and confirmed their findings through zero-knowledge proofs, although the specific algorithm was not disclosed.