Ever wonder what’s going on inside the Google Quantum AI Lab? The generally circumspect company posted a neat video yesterday – Step Inside the Google Quantum Quantum AI Lab – showing the steps it goes through in building a quantum computer. The visuals are great as is the information, if not overly technical.

Packaging is the dominant theme. During one section the presenter walks you through the various levels of the dilution refrigerator – the ubiquitous chandelier apparatus necessary to product the frigid temperatures required for proper qubit functioning. Another presented shows the dizzying labyrinth of wiring needed to deliver and receive signals from qubits.

The video goes behind the scenes at Google’s Quantum AI Lab in Santa Barbara and is hosted by lab personnel with Google’s director of quantum hardware, Julian Kelly leading the way. It’s a great, visually stunning, ~ 6 min look at a quantum computer, top to bottom. Enjoy.

Google, of course, is at the forefront of quantum computer research and development broadly. It’s recent paper, Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold, has stirred lots of conversation on social media. Google says the work, proves that building a fault-tolerant quantum computer will be possible, something that that has been questioned in recent months. “Our results present device performance that, if scaled, could realize the operational requirements of large scale fault-tolerant quantum algorithms,” according to Google.