Overview
- Quantinuum and Oracle announced a multi‑year partnership on Tuesday to place Quantinuum’s Helios quantum computer inside Oracle Cloud Infrastructure so OCI customers can access the system as a managed service.
- Helios is a trapped‑ion system that Quantinuum commercially launched on November 5, 2025, with 98 physical qubits and a reported two‑qubit gate fidelity of 99.921%, which supports longer, more complex quantum circuits.
- Oracle said Helios will run on‑site in a U.S. Oracle AI data center and will be integrated with OCI networking, storage, identity and governance tools so customers can combine quantum jobs with existing AI and HPC workloads.
- The companies plan to preview an OCI quantum service in coming months that will combine Quantinuum’s development stack with open hybrid‑programming frameworks to help developers build and test quantum‑classical applications.
- Financial terms and a specific deployment date were not disclosed, but the deal is intended to lower barriers for firms and universities to try hybrid quantum–AI workflows and to link quantum processors with GPUs and HPC resources for real enterprise use cases.