A student built a fusion reactor at home in just 4 weeks using $2,000 and AI

A math student has achieved the unthinkable. In just four weeks, Hudhayfa Nazoordeen, a math student at the University of Waterloo, has created a small homemade fusion reactor using parts he bought for $2,000, with the help of Claude—Anthropic’s AI chatbot.

Nazoordeen says he was able to build the reactor with “zero hardware experience.” To get started, he spent one week sourcing and figuring out all of the different components he would need to create the reactor. During the second week...