Google Quantum AI Verifiable Quantum Circuit Compilation competition on Kaggle
Google Quantum AI offers $150,000 in prizes for compressing fault tolerant quantum circuits on Kaggle. No quantum physics background is needed. Final deadline January 20, 2027.
The Verifiable Quantum Circuit Compilation competition is run by Google Quantum AI on Kaggle. Participants make fault tolerant quantum circuits smaller by cutting the Toffoli count and the number of logical qubits.
There are three tasks: a stopping power subroutine from fusion energy research, a Reed–Solomon syndrome decoder for Decoded Quantum Interferometry, and loading the FeMoCo Hamiltonian used in nitrogen fixation research. Circuits are checked automatically, so the page also presents the task as a reward signal for AI coding agents.
The total prize pool is $150,000. First place gets $50k, second $25k, third $10k and fourth to sixth $5k each. Another $50k goes to a $10k milestone prize in the middle of the competition, a $10k prize for the team that leads the longest and $30k for the best results on single tasks.
The competition opened on October 22, 2026. The deadline to join and to merge teams is January 13, 2027, and the final submission deadline is January 20, 2027 at 23:59 UTC.
Quick answers
Do I need to know quantum physics?
No. The organizers say no quantum physics background is needed.
How are submissions checked?
Automatically, by fuzz testing with the open source kickmix simulator in Google's Qualtran library. There is no hidden test set.
How big can a team be?
Up to 5 people. Each team can make up to 5 submissions a day and choose 2 final submissions.