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Researchers from Google DeepMind and Google Quantum AI have unveiled an automated pipeline that uses large‑language‑model agents inside the Lean 4 interactive theorem prover to discover and formally verify quantum algorithms. The system couples multi‑agent collaborative search with quantum Hoare logic, allowing it to synthesize programs and produce machine‑checked proofs of correctness and resource usage that scale beyond classical simulation limits. By expressing specifications as Hoare triples in Lean 4, the team avoids the need for custom axioms and can verify logical spacetime cost (Q·T) for fault‑tolerant execution. In benchmark simulations, the AI‑generated circuits achieved order‑of‑magnitude reductions in non‑Clifford T‑gate counts for tasks such as inertial‑confinement fusion stopping power, non‑Born–Oppenheimer dynamics, and cytochrome P450 modeling, demonstrating verifiable resource savings for large‑scale quantum applications. Technical details and proofs are available in the accompanying arXiv preprint.