{"slug": "ai-cut-the-quantum-timeline-to-two-years-tip-is-available-now", "title": "AI Cut the Quantum Timeline to Two Years. TIP Is Available Now", "summary": "The AI Lab made its Trust Identity Protocol (TIP) publicly available on October 5, 2026, letting journalists, authors and filmmakers sign work with post-quantum signatures recorded on an immutable, decentralized ledger. Founder and Chairman Dinesh Mendhe said AI has cut the world's preparation window for quantum computing from roughly 20 years to about two, citing qubit estimates that fell from 20 million in 2019 to fewer than 100,000 in the February 2026 Pinnacle Architecture paper, and Google's 2029 post-quantum migration deadline. NIST published its post-quantum digital signature standard FIPS 204 in August 2024, and its draft NIST IR 8547 proposes deprecating RSA-2048 after 2030 and disallowing it after 2035.", "body_md": "News\n\n# AI Cut the Quantum Timeline From 20 Years to 2. The Post-Quantum Trust Identity Protocol Is *Available Now*\n\nThe qubits needed to break today's encryption fell from 20 million to fewer than 100,000 in seven years, and Google has set 2029 as its own deadline. The AI Lab has made TIP available to the public, so creators can sign their work with signatures built for the quantum era.\n\n[Dinesh Mendhe](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dineshmendheny/), Founder and Chairman, The AI LabOctober 6, 2026\n\nOn October 5, 2026, The AI Lab made the [Trust Identity Protocol (TIP)](https://theailab.org/trust-identity-protocol) available to the public. Journalists, authors, filmmakers and other creators can now sign their work with a post-quantum signature recorded on an immutable, decentralized ledger, so anyone can check who made it and whether it has changed since. The announcement went out on [EIN Presswire](https://www.einpresswire.com/article/947388005/the-ai-lab-says-ai-cut-the-quantum-timeline-from-20-years-to-2-its-post-quantum-tip-protocol-is-available-now), and [The Quantum Insider](https://thequantuminsider.com/2026/10/05/ai-lab-post-quantum-tip-content-verification/) and [Quantum Zeitgeist](https://quantumzeitgeist.com/ai-lab-quantum-threat-two-years/) covered it the same day.\n\nThe reason for releasing it now is the quantum timeline. The AI Lab says AI has cut the time the world has to prepare for quantum computing from about 20 years to about two.\n\n“Ten years ago, people in my field talked about the quantum threat as 20 years away. With AI accelerating quantum research, I believe we now have roughly two years to prepare. That is why TIP is available today.”Dinesh Mendhe, Founder and Chairman, The AI Lab\n\n## How fast the estimate fell\n\nMost of the internet's trust rests on public-key cryptography such as RSA-2048. Researchers measure the threat by how many qubits a quantum computer would need to break it. In 2019, Craig Gidney and Martin Ekerå estimated [20 million noisy qubits](https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09749). In May 2025, Gidney, of Google Quantum AI, cut that to [fewer than one million](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15917). In February 2026, the [Pinnacle Architecture paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11457) put it at fewer than 100,000 physical qubits, under stated assumptions about error rates and timing.\n\nA month later, Google set [2029 as its own deadline](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/cryptography-migration-timeline/) to move to post-quantum cryptography, and named digital signatures a priority.\n\n## Why AI is part of the story\n\nQuantum hardware keeps improving, and error correction, the hardest engineering problem in the field, keeps getting more efficient. AI is now speeding up both. Google DeepMind and Google Quantum AI built [AlphaQubit](https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/alphaqubit-quantum-error-correction/), an AI system that identifies errors inside quantum computers more accurately than earlier decoders.\n\nExpert opinion has moved with the research. In the Global Risk Institute's [Quantum Threat Timeline Report 2025](https://globalriskinstitute.org/publication/quantum-threat-timeline-report-2025b/), surveyed experts put the chance of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer within ten years at 28 to 49 percent, the highest ten-year estimate in the report's history.\n\nGovernments have set dates. NIST published [FIPS 204](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/204/final), its post-quantum standard for digital signatures, in August 2024. Its [draft transition guidance, NIST IR 8547](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/ir/8547/ipd), proposes deprecating quantum-vulnerable algorithms such as RSA-2048 after 2030 and disallowing them after 2035.\n\n“No one can tell you the exact year a quantum computer will break today's signatures. But Google, NIST, and the people who set global standards have stopped waiting, and so have we. The record of who made what in our century should not depend on locks we already know will fail.”Dinesh Mendhe\n\n## Why proof of authorship is at risk\n\nMost talk about the quantum threat centers on banks, governments and stolen data. Proof of authorship is a quieter risk underneath them. Digital signatures are how the internet proves who said, made or approved something. If those signatures can be forged, a quantum computer could be used to fake a record of who wrote an essay, composed a song or filed an idea first, or to cast doubt on a real one.\n\nThat risk arrives on top of problems AI has already made worse. Fake content looks real, and the World Economic Forum's [Global Risks Report 2026](https://www.weforum.org/stories/global-risks/global-risks-2026-top-10-two-and-ten-year-horizon/) ranks misinformation and disinformation as the second most severe global risk over the next two years. Work is copied and reposted under someone else's name, ideas are taken before a patent or trademark is filed, and creators lose income when audiences find the copy instead of the original.\n\n## What TIP does\n\nTIP was designed around NIST's post-quantum standards from the start. Every signature uses ML-DSA-65, defined in FIPS 204. Content is fingerprinted with SHAKE-256 from [FIPS 202](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/202/final), so changing a single word breaks the match. Signing keys stay encrypted on the creator's own device and unlock with a face or fingerprint scan through the [W3C WebAuthn](https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-3/) passkey standard. Each record is written to a decentralized ledger, where it cannot be edited or erased, and there is no single point to attack.\n\nSigned work becomes a [Verifiable Asset](https://theailab.org/verifiable-assets). A Verifiable Asset is any piece of digital content that carries a CTID (Content TIP ID): a permanent, signed public record of who made it, when, how it was made, and a fingerprint that shows whether it has changed since. Anyone can tap the TIP badge to check it. TIP is available now through a browser extension and a web app.\n\n“Every essay, every book, every film is a piece of someone's life. People should not have to wonder whether proof of their work will still hold in five years. TIP is built so that it will.”Dr. Sofia Martinez, Chief Executive Officer and President, The AI Lab\n\n## What TIP does not promise\n\nTIP proves where content came from, not whether it is true. The label saying whether a person, AI or both made the work is the creator's own declaration, tied to a verified identity, so a false claim stays on the permanent record under that person's name. Anyone who believes a label is wrong can dispute it, and a jury of verified people decides. TIP does not replace a patent, trademark or copyright filing. It gives creators a dated, checkable record of who made something.\n\n## Who is using it\n\n[Rooverse](https://rooverse.app) is the first social media platform to adopt TIP, and [Apex Modular Solutions](https://apexmodulars.com) the first business website. Iffel International's One Brain is the first planned CRM integration. Iffel's founder, Hema Dey, is an Advisor to the [AI Trust Council](https://theailab.org/ai-trust-council).\n\nBusinesses can sign what they publish and disclose which content used AI. With the transparency obligations in [Article 50 of the EU AI Act](https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/50/) applying from August 2, 2026, that disclosure is becoming an expectation.\n\n## In the press\n\n- [The AI Lab Says AI Cut the Quantum Timeline From 20 Years to 2. Its Post-Quantum TIP Protocol Is Available Now](https://www.einpresswire.com/article/947388005/the-ai-lab-says-ai-cut-the-quantum-timeline-from-20-years-to-2-its-post-quantum-tip-protocol-is-available-now) , EIN Presswire, October 5, 2026.\n- [The AI Lab Launches Post-Quantum TIP Protocol for Content Verification](https://thequantuminsider.com/2026/10/05/ai-lab-post-quantum-tip-content-verification/) , The Quantum Insider, October 5, 2026.\n- [AI Lab Says Quantum Threat Is Now Two Years Away, Not Twenty](https://quantumzeitgeist.com/ai-lab-quantum-threat-two-years/) , Quantum Zeitgeist, October 5, 2026.\n\n## Start with a TIP-ID\n\nA TIP-ID is free for individual creators. Get yours at [vp.theailab.org](https://vp.theailab.org/get-verified), then sign your first work from the browser extension. The full specification is in the [TIP Whitepaper](https://theailab.org/whitepaper), published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.\n\n[Dinesh Mendhe](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dineshmendheny/) is the Founder and Chairman of The AI Lab and the inventor of the Trust Identity Protocol. The AI Lab is led by Chief Executive Officer Dr. Sofia Martinez. Follow The AI Lab on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-ai-lab-org/), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@TheAILabOrg) and [X](https://x.com/theailaborg).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-cut-the-quantum-timeline-to-two-years-tip-is-available-now", "canonical_source": "https://theailab.org/insights/ai-cut-the-quantum-timeline-tip-available-now", "published_at": "2026-10-06 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-06 17:49:35.056975+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["The AI Lab", "Dinesh Mendhe", "Trust Identity Protocol", "Google", "Google Quantum AI", "NIST", "FIPS 204", "AlphaQubit"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-cut-the-quantum-timeline-to-two-years-tip-is-available-now", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-cut-the-quantum-timeline-to-two-years-tip-is-available-now.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-cut-the-quantum-timeline-to-two-years-tip-is-available-now.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-cut-the-quantum-timeline-to-two-years-tip-is-available-now.jsonld"}}