Guillaume Verdon
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| Other names | BasedBeffJezos |
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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.[1] He attended University of Waterloo for graduate studies where he completed Master's work in 2017 at the Institute for Quantum Computing and continued with Achim Kempf as his PhD supervisor.[2] He presented papers as a Guest Speaker at NASA's 2018 Adiabatic Quantum Computing conference.[1][3]
Career
Verdon was the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Everettian Technologies,[4] 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.[5][6] 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 and Quantum Hamiltonian-Based Models.
Verdon is now working at a startup he founded in 2022, Extropic AI.[7][8] The company recently announced the completion of a $14.1 million seed round.[9][5] 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".[5][10]
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.[11][12][13] In its coverage of the movement Forbes outed Verdon as the author behind his pseudonymous account.[5][8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "2018 Adiabatic Quantum Computing Conference - Speakers". Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science - Universities Space Research Association. August 21, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2024.
- ↑ "Guillaume Verdon-Akzam PhD Student". 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.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite's 'E/Acc' Movement?". Forbes. December 1, 2023. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
- ↑ "OpenSea, gverdon".
- ↑ "The crypto bros are coming for AI". Business Insider. December 23, 2023. Retrieved January 18, 2023.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Walker, Stephen (July 4, 2023). "Effective Accelerationism (e/acc)". Klu. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
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