“I’m totally accepting the idea that this might be the last paper I ever put out,” Turturean, who deferred plans to pursue a master’s at MIT’s prestigious computer science and AI lab to join PSI, told TechCrunch. “In a few months, like, why would you even put out a paper?” The problem in question, the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, concerns the ability of quantum computers to solve problems faster than classical ones. Scott Aaronson, one of the two research