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Guillaume Verdon
Born
Guillaume Verdon-Akzam [1]

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Other namesBasedBeffJezos
EducationMcGill University (BS)[2]
University of Waterloo (MMath)[2][3]
Known for

Guillaume Verdon is an entrepreneur, theoretical physicist, quantum computing researcher, and philosophical writer.

Education

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Verdon attended McGill University as an undergraduate and graduated with honors with a double major in Mathematics & Physics.[2] He attended University of Waterloo for graduate studies where he completed Master's work in 2017[3][4] at the Institute for Quantum Computing and continued with Achim Kempf as his PhD supervisor.[1] He presented papers as a Guest Speaker at NASA's 2018 Adiabatic Quantum Computing conference.[2][5]

Career

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Verdon was the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Everettian Technologies,[6] an early Canadian start-up focused on Quantum machine learning solutions. He also had a side venture into NFTs related to quantum physics/information which provided capital for his later startup Extropic AI.[7][8] Verdon has worked at Alphabet & Google and had primary responsibility for theoretical work on the team that introduced the TensorFlow Quantum library for quantum machine learning.[9][10][11] During his time at Google X Verdon pioneered and worked on Quantum Graph Neural Networks,[12] quantum Magnetoencephalography,[13] and Quantum Hamiltonian-Based Models.[14] He has several patents[15] with Google X covering quantum computing, quantum machine learning, and signal processing.

Verdon is now working at a startup he founded in 2022, Extropic AI.[16][17] The company recently announced the completion of a $14.1 million seed round.[18][7] Extropic AI was initially operating in stealth-mode and is focused on building chips specifically intended for running LLMs according to Verdon a "type of physics-based computer that is not quantum".[7][19]

Effective accelerationism

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Main article: Effective accelerationism

Verdon writing under the pseudonym BasedBeffJezos was one of the co-founders of the effective acceleration (e/acc) movement. The origin of the movement can be traced back to a May 2022 newsletter published by him and 3 other authors.[20][21][22] In its coverage of the movement Forbes outed Verdon as the author behind his pseudonymous account.[7][17] Since his naming he has spoken on podcasts & debated publicly those with conflicting views on AI safety and other issues of technological progress.[23]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Guillaume Verdon-Akzam PhD Student". Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d "2018 Adiabatic Quantum Computing Conference - Speakers". Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science - Universities Space Research Association. August 21, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Physics of Information Lab: Former group members". 15 October 2014. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  4. ^ Verdon-Akzam, Guillaume (January 10, 2017). "Probing Quantum Fields: Measurements and Quantum Energy Teleportation". University of Waterloo. Retrieved June 5, 2024.
  5. ^ "Quantum Approximate Boltzmann Machines - Guillaume Verdon". Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science - Universities Space Research Association. August 21, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2024.
  6. ^ "Everettian-Technologies - Overview, Competitors, and Employees". Apollo.io. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
  7. ^ a b c d "Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite's 'E/Acc' Movement?". Forbes. December 1, 2023. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  8. ^ "OpenSea, gverdon".
  9. ^ "TensorFlow Quantum: A software platform for hybrid quantum-classical ML (TF Dev Summit '20)". TensorFlow. March 11, 2020. Retrieved February 5, 2024.
  10. ^ Broughton, Michael; Verdon, Guillaume; McCourt, Trevor; Martinez, Antonio J.; Jae Hyeon Yoo; Isakov, Sergei V.; Massey, Philip; Halavati, Ramin; Murphy Yuezhen Niu; Zlokapa, Alexander; Peters, Evan; Lockwood, Owen; Skolik, Andrea; Jerbi, Sofiene; Dunjko, Vedran; Leib, Martin; Streif, Michael; David Von Dollen; Chen, Hongxiang; Cao, Shuxiang; Wiersema, Roeland; Huang, Hsin-Yuan; McClean, Jarrod R.; Babbush, Ryan; Boixo, Sergio; Bacon, Dave; Ho, Alan K.; Neven, Hartmut; Mohseni, Masoud (August 26, 2021). "TensorFlow Quantum: A Software Framework for Quantum Machine Learning". arXiv:2003.02989 [quant-ph].
  11. ^ Black, Doug (March 9, 2020). "TensorFlow Quantum software combines quantum and classical machine learning". insideHPC. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
  12. ^ Verdon, Guillaume; McCourt, Trevor; Luzhnica, Enxhell; Singh, Vikash; Leichenauer, Stefan; Hidary, Jack (2019-09-26). "Quantum Graph Neural Networks". arXiv:1909.12264 [quant-ph].
  13. ^ US20210196177A1, Verdon-Akzam, Guillaume; Lv, Xudong & Leichenauer, Stefan, "Magnetoencephalography", issued 2021-07-01 
  14. ^ Verdon, Guillaume; Marks, Jacob; Nanda, Sasha; Leichenauer, Stefan; Hidary, Jack (2019-10-04). "Quantum Hamiltonian-Based Models and the Variational Quantum Thermalizer Algorithm". arXiv:1910.02071 [quant-ph].
  15. ^ "Google Patents". patents.google.com. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
  16. ^ "The crypto bros are coming for AI". Business Insider. December 23, 2023. Retrieved January 18, 2023.
  17. ^ a b "The techno-optimists and doomsdayers inside Silicon Valley's most dangerous AI debate". CNBC. December 17, 2023. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  18. ^ "Extropic Secures $14.1 Million in Seed Funding to Propel Novel Physics-Based Computing Paradigm". December 12, 2023. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  19. ^ "Eight startups challenging Nvidia in AI chips". The Information. August 24, 2023. Retrieved February 3, 2024.
  20. ^ "Get the lowdown on 'e/acc' — Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about progress at all costs, which has been embraced by Marc Andreessen". Business Insider. July 28, 2023. Retrieved January 18, 2023.
  21. ^ "Effective Accelerationism — e/acc". 31 October 2022. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  22. ^ Walker, Stephen (July 4, 2023). "Effective Accelerationism (e/acc)". Klu. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
  23. ^ Lavoipierre, Ange (February 17, 2024). "The AI insiders who want the controversial technology to be developed faster". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
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