GPT-5.6 Sol calibrates a quantum chip on its own in an MIT lab
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SI is becoming a lab assistant that runs physical experiments by itself. Scientists are freed from routine, and the science of quantum computers may speed up.
MIT graduate student Beatrice Yankelevich connected GPT-5.6 Sol through Codex to a six-qubit superconducting chip. The agent chose experiment parameters itself, controlled the equipment, analyzed the data and calibrated qubit frequencies, control pulses and information storage time; OpenAI writes of 40 target measurements in which a human intervened in only four. On weak, noisy or physically ambiguous signals the agent still needs an expert's help; such calibration usually takes scientists several days per chip.
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