Oracle and Quantinuum have agreed a multi-year partnership under which Quantinuum will physically install its Helios quantum computer inside a US Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI data centre, and Oracle will sell access to it as a managed OCI service.
No financial terms were disclosed, no launch customer was named, and no firm date was given beyond a preview “in the coming months”.
Most quantum cloud offerings are brokerage: a customer sends a job from a hyperscaler’s console to a machine sitting in the quantum vendor’s own facility, and the results come back.
Putting Helios inside an OCI data centre puts the quantum processor on the same fabric as Oracle’s GPUs and HPC capacity, under the same governance and security controls, which is what makes hybrid workloads, the ones that hand a problem back and forth between classical and quantum hardware, worth attempting at all.
Helios is not new hardware. Quantinuum launched it commercially in November 2025: a trapped-ion machine with 98 physical qubits, 48 demonstrated logical qubits, and an average two-qubit gate fidelity of 99.921%.
