Kryptos Initiative


About: In late 2024 and early 2025 reports began emerging regarding the ‘final’ puzzle of Kryptos ‘K4’ being solved by AI. Jim Sanborn, the sculptor, said he was ‘disgusted’ by these attempts.

I’m nothing if not the embodiment of spite, and middle fingers, and knowing that Jim Sanborn has continued to charge 50$ every ‘disgusting attempt’ thrown his way. Which means the Kryptos Initiative now serves as an ‘out of the box LLM project’ with a goal of pushing K4 with the hope of solution: all enabled by AI.

As of April 2025, here’s where we’re at. We’ve uncovered a number of additional clues! But these are taking a little bit for me to migrate off of Discord and will be up soon.

In Depth Explanations:

Solutions Explained: K1 + K2

Solution Explained: K3

Solution Explained: Cyrillic Projector

Additional Uncovered Clues: