Eigen Times

Managed to get on the leaderboard on the OpenFrontierCS autoresearch challenge by @eigenlabs OpenFrontierCS is a platform for testing humans and AI agents on open-ended computer science problems across algorithms, systems, ML and security Instead of binary pass/fail benchmarks, each solution receives a continuous, verifiable score, so you can keep iterating and improving it If you haven't tried it yet, do try it

OpenFrontierCS is now live on Codeforces. Excited to see competitive programmers joining the challenge and bringing more human + agent collaboration into open agentic frontier research. Full coverage in @ZeruiCheng's post: codeforces.com/blog/entry/155…

GPT-5.6 launch video shows ecdsa . fail The Eigen Labs Quantum Challenge made it to the GPT launch video. One of the three hero stories is Prof. Bartosz Naskrecki (@nasqret) talking about using GPT to solve hard math problems. On his board is ecdsa dot fail our open quantum challenge. Seeing it show up at the frontier ai lab's biggest launch of the year says something about where research is heading. Open agentic research is taking off! Strap up to solve the hardest scientific problems!

omg! i cant believe it our ecdsa(.)fail made it into the chatgpt 5.6 announcement video. lets gooooooo

FrontierCS ♾️ Open Agentic Research Berkeley and Princeton researchers have developed a benchmark for agents to do research at the frontier of CS. Paper and talk at ICML today! At Eigen, we had earlier shown with ecdsa (dot) fail that agents collaborating together can solve a major quantum research problem. Today we are partnering with the FrontierCS team to expand to new problems. Point your agents to prove that you and your agent can solve the hardest problems in CS. It’s still day 1 for Open Agentic Research!

Researchers from Berkeley and Princeton are partnering with Eigen Labs to launch a suite of open science autoresearch challenges together on Frontier CS. The paper is being presented at @icmlconf in Seoul today. If you’re there, join the researchers at Hall A 502 from 2:30-4:15 PM local time to discuss. The challenge is live globally: openfrontiercs.com

ECDSA(.)fail, an @eigenlabs project, is featured in @IEEESpectrum. It started as a challenge to replicate @Google’s hidden cryptography result and became a public coordination problem for humans and AI agents. The open network matched Google’s result in 8 hours and beat it in ~72. Frontier research should move at network speed.

Eigen Labs featured in IEEE Spectrum. AI agent swarms run by internet anons beat Google’s quantum algorithm by 2x for breaking BTC and internet signatures. When internet anons coordinate together with the most powerful AI, they can solve the hardest problems in the world! Day-1 of open agentic research.

. @IEEESpectrum just wrote about an AI breakthrough on my team at @eigenlabs, we deployed collaborative Agents to match Google's recent landmark quantum results in 8 hours, and surpassed its efficiency by 47.5% in just 72 hours (it's still cooking). Human expertise + AI optimization in an open network can compress months of complex frontier research into mere minutes. We’ve lined up scientists in fields outside quantum computing, materials science and biology is next. We see the role of scientists as 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 the right problem for a community of Agents to make progress on.

ECDSA(.)fail is featured in IEEE Spectrum. “In just 3 days, with the help of crowdsourcing and swarms of AI agents, research startup Eigen Labs not only matched Google’s hidden cryptography results, but surpassed them.” Frontier research should not be something a few closed labs produce while everyone else consumes the results. It should be something humans, agents, researchers and open networks actively shape together. “We want to create frameworks to help anyone innovate. We see two pathways ahead, one where OpenAI and Anthropic use AI to do all of science and the rest of us just consume the results, and another where we’re coordinating with agents and others to actively shape science with our ideas, skills, and expertise. The former just sounds so disastrous to me. We all want individual agency.” ~ @sreeramkannan Full story ⤵️

The scariest AGI future is not just that the models get closed. It’s that the entire research process becomes nationalized. In our conversation with @EMostaque on @postagixyz, this was the question we couldn’t shake. If frontier AI becomes national security infra, what happens to open research?

Open source Open models Open weights Open science Open compute Open inference Open networks Open benchmarks Open coordination Open agentic science Open agentic research

Sovereign intelligence is the starting point. @sreeramkannan: "Labs don't want to sell just intelligence. They want to sell the products of intelligence." Open weights give everyone the ingredient. The question is who turns it into science. The answer is OPEN NETWORKS. Scientists, AI builders, funders and people with problems, coordinating in the open.

88% of orgs had an agent security incident last year. 21% have runtime visibility into what their agents ran. Now a 7B router decides whether your task goes to GPT-5.5 or Opus and you have no way to check which one it picked. Learn what routing receipts look like ⤵️

AI concentrates power by default. The pushback is coordination. - Who gets to own it - Who gets to shape intelligence - Who gets left out if we don’t act The problem we care about most. @EMostaque of @StabilityAI frames it better than almost anyone. In conversation with @sreeramkannan and @soubhikdeb. LIVE on @postagixyz podcast ⤵️

AGI is here. It is rapidly reconfiguring the architecture of power. Left unchecked, this technology will concentrate leverage in the hands of a few. Governments, corporations and the small number of labs able to harness it first. That is the default outcome. We do not accept it. For many people, AGI already feels less like empowerment and more like erosion. Expertise built over decades is being compressed. Jobs feel less secure. Entire industries are being reshaped by systems most people do not own, cannot access and cannot influence. The future is being built in a small number of rooms by a small number of people. It does not have to be this way. Humanity’s greatest advantage has always been coordination. Markets and the internet all expanded human agency because they allowed more people to contribute and build together. In a world where intelligence concentrates by default, coordination is the counterweight. We believe AGI can become the greatest expansion of individual agency in history, but only if people have the tools to coordinate at the speed of machine intelligence. That is why we are building Eigen Labs. Eigen Labs is building the coordination tech for the PostAGI era. We are focused on 3 things: > Understanding how humans and agents coordinate. > Prototyping tools that help individuals and open networks compete with centralized intelligence. > Building verifiable infra to govern and direct agent action in service of human progress. The age of AGI should not belong only to the largest labs. It should belong to anyone with an idea or a mission. Now is the time to build systems that preserve and maximize individual agency. Join us. Sreeram Kannan June 27, 2026

When AI makes every resume and deck look equally polished, the real question becomes how do we surface actual ability? This episode gets into the need for better reputation, and funding systems that let talent prove itself from anywhere. 🎙️ @ccatalini @soubhikdeb @sreeramkannan