βοΈ The Open Quantum Challenge is live. Both seasons open today.
Quantum computers are expensive, queued, and reachable by only a few. So we removed the barrier. With a single GPU and a public harness, anyone can contribute to core quantum-computing problems with no quantum hardware at all. That is the point of this challenge: to move quantum research from a handful of labs to everyone.
β’ Season 1, Quantum simulation: reproduce a target quantum system on a GPU. β’ Season 2, QEC decoder: correct errors on coded quantum states.
Answers are held privately and every submission is auto-scored against a frozen ground truth, so the ranking is reproducible and hardware-independent.
π Prize: 2,000 USD total (1,000 USD per season, π₯600 / π₯300 / π₯100)
Getting started takes one step: copy the participation guide from the Space and paste it into Codex or Claude Code, then submit against the harness.
π» Data-center AI, now on a laptop: POCKET-Darwin-180B
We're releasing a 4-bit GGUF build of Darwin-180B-RSI, #1 on seven official Hugging Face leaderboards (self-reported), that runs without a GPU.
π¦ 360 GB β 111 GB (4-bit GGUF, 4 files) π₯οΈ No GPU: one server CPU (16 threads) at 18.4β21.0 tokens/s π» RTX 5060 laptop (8 GB VRAM) + 32 GB RAM: 4.17 tokens/s π§ 128 GB mini PC: whole model in memory, no GPU needed π― MMLU-Pro, 2,000 questions, paired: original 87.65% = 4-bit 87.65%
How? Β· Only ~3B of 180B parameters are active per token (10 of 512 experts) Β· llama.cpp streams just the needed experts from SSD, so 32 GB RAM is enough Β· Graft quantization: we took the proven Unsloth UD-Q4_K_XL base build and swapped in only the 300 tensors our RSI training changed (300/300 verified)
Under the hood is Model-level Recursive Self-Improvement. The model solves verifiable problems, keeps only its own solutions that check out as correct, and trains on them. No human-written solutions or reasoning traces.
Built for teams that can't send data to an external cloud (defense, finance, public sector) to run a top-tier model fully offline.