Guillaume Verdon
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| Born | Guillaume Verdon-Akzam [1] Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Other names | BasedBeffJezos |
| 🏫 Education | McGill University (BS)[2] University of Waterloo (MMath)[2][3] |
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Guillaume Verdon is an entrepreneur, theoretical physicist, quantum computing researcher, and philosophical writer.
Education
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] 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][4]
Career
Verdon was the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Everettian Technologies,[5] 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.[6][7] 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.[8][9] During his time at Google X Verdon pioneered and worked on Quantum Graph Neural Networks,[10] quantum Magnetoencephalography,[11] and Quantum Hamiltonian-Based Models.[12] He has several patents[13] 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.[14][15] The company recently announced the completion of a $14.1 million seed round.[16][6] 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".[6][17]
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.[18][19][20] In its coverage of the movement, Forbes outed Verdon as the author behind his pseudonymous account.[6][15]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Guillaume Verdon-Akzam PhD Student". Retrieved January 16, 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "2018 Adiabatic Quantum Computing Conference - Speakers". Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science - Universities Space Research Association. August 21, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2024.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Physics of Information Lab: Former group members". 15 October 2014. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
- ↑ "Quantum Approximate Boltzmann Machines - Guillaume Verdon". Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science - Universities Space Research Association. August 21, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2024.
- ↑ "Everettian-Technologies - Overview, Competitors, and Employees". Apollo.io. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite's 'E/Acc' Movement?". Forbes. December 1, 2023. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
- ↑ "OpenSea, gverdon".
- ↑ "TensorFlow Quantum: A software platform for hybrid quantum-classical ML (TF Dev Summit '20)". TensorFlow. March 11, 2020. Retrieved February 5, 2024.
- ↑ 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].
- ↑ Verdon, Guillaume; McCourt, Trevor; Luzhnica, Enxhell; Singh, Vikash; Leichenauer, Stefan; Hidary, Jack (2019-09-26). "Quantum Graph Neural Networks". arXiv:1909.12264 [quant-ph].
- ↑ US20210196177A1, Verdon-Akzam, Guillaume; Xudong Lv & Stefan Leichenauer, "Magnetoencephalography", issued 2021-07-01
- ↑ 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].
- ↑ "Google Patents". patents.google.com. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
- ↑ "The crypto bros are coming for AI". Business Insider. December 23, 2023. Retrieved January 18, 2023.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "The techno-optimists and doomsdayers inside Silicon Valley's most dangerous AI debate". CNBC. December 17, 2023. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
- ↑ "Extropic Secures $14.1 Million in Seed Funding to Propel Novel Physics-Based Computing Paradigm". December 12, 2023. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
- ↑ "Eight startups challenging Nvidia in AI chips". The Information. August 24, 2023. Retrieved February 3, 2024.
- ↑ "Effective Accelerationism — e/acc". 31 October 2022. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
- ↑ Walker, Stephen (July 4, 2023). "Effective Accelerationism (e/acc)". Klu. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
External links
- Lex Fridman Podcast #407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI
- Extropic AI - Official Website
- Google Scholar Profile
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