Quantinuum (NASDAQ: QNT) and Oracle unveiled a multi-year strategic partnership on August 11, 2026 to bring commercial quantum computing to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), installing Quantinuum's flagship Helios trapped-ion system inside a US-based OCI AI data center. The move gives Oracle's enterprise customers a native quantum service alongside the cloud's existing HPC and GPU fleets.
Helios plugs directly into OCI
Helios is Quantinuum's third-generation quantum computer, launched commercially in November 2025. The 98-physical-qubit system has been used in demonstrations involving 48 logical qubits and delivers an average two-qubit gate fidelity of 99.921%, exceeding the widely cited "three nines" threshold. Deploying it on-premises inside OCI means customers can compose quantum jobs with OCI compute, networking, storage and identity services under a single set of governance controls.
Hybrid quantum-AI as an OCI service
Oracle plans to preview its OCI quantum service in the coming months, letting developers move from simulation to real hardware through a managed interface that supports Quantinuum's own stack alongside open-source hybrid programming frameworks. Target workloads include drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling and large-scale optimization, plus hybrid AI tasks that combine classical GPUs with quantum accelerators.
Energy and enterprise economics
Quantinuum executives emphasized Helios's efficiency footprint: a single unit draws around 60 kW, compared with 16-39 MW for leading supercomputers, positioning quantum as a complementary resource for suitable hybrid workloads. "We believe the next phase of enterprise computing will be shaped by bringing quantum, AI, and high-performance computing together," said Quantinuum CEO Rajeeb Hazra. Oracle's Mahesh Thiagarajan, EVP of OCI, framed the deal as extending the cloud's AI stack: "AI has changed what organizations can imagine, and we believe quantum computing can expand what they're able to solve."
The partnership lands the same day Quantinuum reported its first quarterly earnings as a public company, and it follows a string of ecosystem moves for the Broomfield, Colorado-based firm, including the recently launched Startup Partner Program.
Reporting based on coverage from Quantinuum, Oracle, HPCwire and The Quantum Insider.