About Deep Quantum

"Deep Quantum is what you'd get if Sir Demis Hassabis had a mohawk and a lot less funding."
- P0t3mk1n

Deep Quantum was founded in 2014 as little more than a domain name, a sarcastic take on those tie-wearers who try to sell the unsellable by heaping on as many tech du jour buzzwords as possible. Riding the hype cycle at that time were terms such as deep learning, quantum computing, blockchain, and big data, so claiming deepquantum.com was our small way of flinging poo poking fun at the techno-capitalist zeitgeist.

However, what began as satire has long since matured into a hacker collective of like-minded technologists, thinkers and tinkerers gathering to push the boundaries of technology and sentience with the explicit goal of creating strong artificial intelligence: AGI.

The name has stuck, and we now embrace it as a badge of honour, a symbol of our commitment to exploring the intersection of cyberpunk and the quest for AI.

In the end, Deep Quantum is not a business, nor an academically affiliated AI lab. We are just some hackers in a garage.

- A11y aka BitchHazel, dev/213, P0t3mk1n, and ~toad~rage~

cat /etc/passwd | grep "deep_quantum" deep_quantum:x:1337:1337:Just Some Hackers:/home/garage:/bin/bash

Our Philosophy

We believe in:

  • Open source and knowledge sharing
  • Learning by doing and breaking things
  • Privacy as a fundamental right
  • Alan, Bruce, Cory, and the countless pioneers on whose shoulders we stand

The Garage

Our physical space has evolved over the years, at times a literal garage, other times fully virtual. Often chaotic, but it's our lab, our lair, our mission control. An uninterruptible power supply keeping our shared vision up.

We are headquartered in Europe.

ls -la /home/garage total 42 drwxrwxrwx 7 deep_quantum hackers 4096 May 29 2025 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jun 1 2014 .. drwxrwxr-x 8 deep_quantum hackers 4096 May 20 2025 projects drwxrwxr-x 2 deep_quantum hackers 4096 May 15 2025 hardware drwxrwxr-x 3 deep_quantum hackers 4096 May 5 2025 network -rw-rw-r-- 1 deep_quantum hackers 1337 May 1 2025 TODO.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 deep_quantum hackers 2048 Apr 28 2025 manifesto.md

What's with the hacker pseudonyms? What are you hiding?

First, we believe privacy is a fundamental right, and there is no privacy sans anonymity. Second, our work should either speak for itself or keep silent. Finally, should we succeed in contributing to the emergence of AGI, some of our members believe that this could present a risk to their personal safety. In any case, we would rather be safe than sorry.

Join Us | Contact Us

We don't have a formal membership process. If you are interested in what we do, reach out. Tell us about yourself.

The best way to get involved is to start hacking on something interesting and share it with us on root [at] this domain.