Speaker 0:  forget everything you know about ikea. barcelona's kilimanjaro just released a flat pack kit for a five qubit supercomputing quantum computer. we aren't just teaching quantum theory anymore. we're letting students build the coldest machines in the universe in their own classrooms. is this quantum ikea, build your own? edukit is a modular, commercially available kit that lets your universities assemble a five qubit quantum machine from the ground up. it includes the chip, the microwave electronics, and the massive cooling system needed to reach near absolute zero. this shifts quantum education from cloud only simulator to hands on hardware mastery, solving a massive talent shortage in quantum engineering. what do you think about this, john?

Speaker 1:  i absolutely love this. i'm geeking out over this. do you have a picture of it? it looks like a suitcase kind of thing. it looks like a very primitive suitcase. it reminds me of the first, laptop computers back in the day. right? so, let's let's kind of what is a do it yourself quantum computer. right? so unlike the superconducting quantum computer used by ibm, google, we're getting computing or trapped ion systems from ion q. spin q systems rely on nuclear magnetic resonance, which is the same underlying physics used in, you know, like mri machines or nmr spectroscopy. in these systems, the qubits are represented by nuclear spins. magnetic fields are manipulated by those spins. and so radio frequency pulses, they perform the gate operations and measurements determine the quantum state outcomes. so these machines, they use permanent maintenance generating approximately one tesla magnetic field to control the quantum states. now the key engineering breakthrough here is accessibility. room temperature operation, no dilution refrigerators, integrated touch screen interface, compact design, and low power requirements. and how low power requirements you say and what are those specs? well, the gemini mini, it reportedly weighs only 14 kilograms and consumes roughly 60 watts of power, which is radically different from industrial quantum computers. so, i'm excited for this. i would love to experiment with it. i know you can experiment in the cloud with ibms and stuff like that, but this is kinda cool. what are your thoughts on this, craig? like, what do you think about this? would you get one?

Speaker 0:  well, we'll get into that in a second. i put a picture up here on the board, on the board, on the screen for those who want students playing with it. described as relatively cheap compared to multimillion dollar industrial rigs. i'm gonna skip down here. i went to the cost. so, while the kilimanjaro doesn't buy it now button on their site, the current market reports the academic listing place, the full educate bundle is approximately €1,000,000. to the average consumer, a million dollars sounds like a heist. to a university department head, it's a bargain. the fridge is what cost the most money. the fridge cost between 500 to 800,000,000. yeah. and so the electronics, you're not just getting a pc. you're getting a specialized radio frequency microwave control stacks and translate code into precise pulses needed to, nudge the atom. so enterprise systems can cost 10,000,000 to 50,000,000 and require a dedicated team of phes just to keep the lights on. and there's an entry level spin queue, which is a desktop, but that are mini two cubit desktop units for around 15,000 to 30,000. but those are nuclear magnetic resonance machines. basically, they call them high-tech toys that can't be modified or used for serious supercomputing. so i think i'd have, better money for me personally, for that million dollars. i wouldn't mind playing with one, but i'm not, shopping.

Speaker 1:  no. i was talking more about the gemini mini, the one that's 15,000. so that one, it supports two qubits and coherent times around a 150 to 200 milliseconds. so, obviously, nowhere near the scale of anything else, but the cool thing about this is that, owning a physical quantum device, it kind of changes the educational experience. so students can directly manipulate hardware, they can observe decoherence, they can experiment with pulse sequences, and they can physically interact with quantum systems, which is cool, which could accelerate, obviously, quantum literacy, some workforce training, and even, broader public understanding of quantum technologies. right? so i think this is cool. so the one that you're picturing there, i don't know i don't think that's their mini their spin cube gemini mini lab. i don't know what

Speaker 0:  oh, this is the edukit, the million dollar one.

Speaker 1:  oh, okay. that's the million dollar one. yeah. so the one that i was referring to, it looks like an old, and that's that's not spinq's one, is it? that's kilimanjaro's. yeah. yeah. yeah. the one i was talking about was spinq. but it it's still an nmr, but that it's much smaller. so, that's probably the one that you're talking about for 15,000 or 10,000. right?

Speaker 0:  yep. yeah. alright. let me jump back here. i just jumped over to spin queue so you could see what's happening.

Speaker 1:  so if you go to, products and services and nmr quantum product and services, the experimental platform spin queue jump that one. yeah. doesn't that look cool?

Speaker 0:  sure. it looks cool, and you can have a lot of fun with that.

Speaker 1:  yeah.

Speaker 0:  think of this update like a transition from flight simulators to flying in a real cessna. simulators are great for learning the dashboard, but they don't teach you how to fix a fuel leak or handle real world turbulence. the educate moves students out of the video game version of quantum computing and into the actual hangar where they have to turn the wrenches themselves. so this was announced in january, 2026. they're described as relatively cheap, and they're available for people to, universities and whatnot to buy now. their operating temperature is at 15 millikelvin, which is, you know, the is roughly 200 times colder than the cosmic microwave background radiation. anyway, it's cold, and that's why the fridge is, like, $800,000. the price at five cubics, this machine cannot perform quantum supremacy or break encryption. it is sophisticated educational tool, not a shortcut to solving the world's hardest problems. it's really cool. i like that we're getting this in the hands of students, and i look forward to hearing more about, more quantum people. and if we want to really raise our education, we'll have more quantum scientists, we need this at the university level.

Speaker 1:  absolutely.

Speaker 0:  so the era of the black box quantum computer is over. the era of the do it yourself quantum engineer has begun. if you had a five bit qubit machine in your basement, what's the first thing you try to optimize? your stock portfolio or the perfect cup of coffee? let us know in the chat.