Quantinuum and Oracle partner to bring quantum computing to OCI
Quantinuum and Oracle announced a multi-year strategic partnership on Tuesday to make Quantinuum's Helios quantum computer available through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, giving OCI customers the ability to run quantum workloads alongside the cloud platform's high-performance computing and GPU services.
Under the deal, Helios will be housed at a U.S.-based Oracle AI data center, where the system is expected to plug into OCI's compute, networking, storage, and identity infrastructure through the same governance framework and access controls already familiar to customers, the companies said. Oracle plans to preview an OCI quantum service in the coming months, pairing Quantinuum's development stack with open-source hybrid-programming tools so developers can construct and test applications that blend quantum and classical computing.
Helios, Quantinuum's third-generation quantum computer, launched commercially in November 2025. The 98-physical-qubit trapped-ion system has been used in demonstrations involving 48 logical qubits and achieves an average two-qubit gate fidelity of 99.921%, the company said.
"We believe the next phase of enterprise computing will be shaped by bringing quantum, AI, and high-performance computing together," Quantinuum President and CEO Rajeeb Hazra said in a statement. "Deploying Helios inside OCI gives Quantinuum and Oracle an opportunity to create a unique and deeply integrated environment for hybrid workloads, explore enterprise use cases with customers, and accelerate commercial adoption."
Mahesh Thiagarajan, executive vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, said in a statement that the partnership is intended to give developers "a practical and secure way to explore how quantum computing could complement their existing AI and HPC workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure while improving compute efficiency and energy use."
According to the companies, the partnership will include joint investigation into how hybrid quantum-AI systems might tackle demanding computational problems in areas such as materials science, pharmaceuticals, logistics, energy, and finance, with plans to extend that access to academic and research communities as well.
The partnership announcement came alongside Quantinuum's second-quarter earnings release. The company reported revenue of $8 million for the quarter ended June 30, up 279% from $2 million in the prior-year period. Quantinuum also completed its initial public offering earlier this year , raising $1.7 billion in gross proceeds — the first traditional IPO in the quantum computing industry, the company said. Quantinuum set its first formal revenue guidance as a public company, projecting full-year 2026 revenue of $28 million to $32 million.
