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PUBLISHED RESEARCH // 26 SEP 2026

THE QUANTUM
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STAGE 015

Real experiments. Public receipts. Both the positive engineering milestone and the negative scientific result.

24AZURE CLOUD QVM JOBSRigetti simulator, not QPU
2,048SIMULATED MEASUREMENTSHeld-out future batches
192ACTUAL MODEL GENERATIONSFrozen public Qwen 1.5B
6EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONSIncluding classical controls
01 / A WORKING EXPERIMENTAL PIPELINE

We connected the parts. Then we measured.

Historical observations from independently executed Azure-hosted Rigetti QVM simulator jobs passed through the existing COSMOS SOUL and signal-fusion path into BridgePacket, CNS7 and the evolving dyn12 state. A pinned public open-weight model then forecast independent future simulator observations.

01Rigetti cloud QVM
02SOUL + signal fusion
03BridgePacket
04CNS7 → dyn12
05Qwen forecast
06Blinded scoring

The 12D state was supplied as model-facing prompt context. This experiment did not change Qwen's neural weights, produce physical quantum measurements, or establish a new physics result.

02 / RESULTS FROM SIMULATED RUNS

Here's what actually happened.

Mean absolute error against the concealed ideal probabilities for two separately evaluated cohorts. Lower means less prediction error. Eight scenarios used genuine Azure cloud simulator outputs; 24 separate scenarios used reproducible local classical simulation.

MODEL INPUT CONDITIONAZURE QVM (8)LOCAL CLASSICAL (24)
No history0.292110.30329
Raw history0.074980.11606
Classical statistics0.021160.06810
Actual COSMOS CNS7 12D0.158210.18743
Shuffled CNS7 12D0.192090.15863
Input-drive classical control0.180310.20548
NON-LLM CLASSICAL JEFFREYS POSTERIOR REFERENCEAzure: 0.02116 · Local: 0.02603
03 / THE HONEST SCIENTIFIC FINDING

The pipeline worked.
12D did not improve this forecast.

Providing interpretable classical statistics reduced prediction error in this task. The actual COSMOS/CNS7 12D prompt-context condition did not demonstrate additional predictive value over those same statistics. That is a meaningful measured limitation, not evidence of quantum advantage or AGI.

The model was explicitly told its data came from a simulator, so source-label responses were instruction compliance, not blind simulator-provenance detection. Also, the classical matched control transformed the input drive; matching the final state norm was not independently established.

Next hypothesis: test time-varying, independently measured external signals against equally informative classical filtering and rigorously matched state controls. This would be a separate preregistered experiment, not a reinterpretation of Stage 015.

04 / TRACEABLE EVIDENCE

Don't take our word. Check the receipts.

The GitHub receipts record cloud simulator executions, not physical QPU results. Artifact auditing does not independently authenticate Azure billing or account ownership.

IBM seed RECORDED · growth SIMULATED