According to CoinMeta, research company Physical Superintelligence ( PSI ) announced that with the help of an yet-to-be-released Anthropic model, they successfully proved the Aaronson – Ambainis conjecture that has plagued the mathematical community for nearly 20 years. This conjecture was proposed in 2008 by two scientists to study the speed advantage of quantum computers. Quantum computers can be billions of times faster than ordinary computers when dealing with certain problems, but this advantage usually relies on some mathematical pattern inherent in the problems themselves. This new proof shows that if the input data is completely random, quantum computers cannot gain an exponential advantage in the number of times data is read. After the news spread, Professor Pedro Domingos from the University of Washington believed that the dream of a quantum computing advantage had been shattered. However, one of the conjecture's proposers, Scott Aaronson, pointed out that this understanding is incorrect; the research only limited to how many data queries quantum computers can save on specific problems and did not deny the actual operational speed advantage of quantum computers.