Google optimized Shor’s algorithm earlier this year, but US gov blocked paper release. So Google published a ZK proof of it.

Then somebody figured out how to use an LLM to brute force the problem using the ZKP verifier as the reward circuit. Then it became a contest to improve on Google’s original redacted result, and now the Internet is 44% ahead of Google’s findings, and efficiency (number of qubits needed to run Shor) has been improving every day for the past two weeks. #PQC #quantum

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