Quantinuum and Oracle partner to bring quantum computing to OCI

Quantinuum (NASDAQ: QNT) and Oracle announced a multi-year strategic partnership to make quantum computing available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), according to a press release dated Aug. 11, 2026.

Under the agreement, Quantinuum's Helios quantum computer will be deployed in a U.S.-based OCI data center, where OCI customers can access it alongside existing high-performance computing (HPC) and GPU infrastructure. Oracle plans to preview its OCI quantum service in the coming months.

Helios, launched commercially in November 2025, is Quantinuum's third-generation trapped-ion quantum computer. The 98-physical-qubit system has been used in demonstrations involving 48 logical qubits and achieves an average two-qubit gate fidelity of 99.921%. Quantinuum states the system draws approximately 60 kilowatts of power, compared with the 16 to 39 megawatts reported for leading supercomputers.

The partnership targets enterprise, academic, and research use cases including drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, and large-scale optimization. Customers are expected to access the system without procuring or operating dedicated hardware.

"Deploying Helios inside OCI gives Quantinuum and Oracle an opportunity to create a unique deeply integrated environment for hybrid workloads, explore enterprise use cases with customers, and accelerate commercial adoption," said Dr. Rajeeb Hazra, President and CEO of Quantinuum.

Mahesh Thiagarajan, Executive Vice President of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, said the arrangement 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."

The planned OCI quantum service is expected to support open-source hybrid-programming frameworks and combine Quantinuum's development stack with OCI's compute, networking, storage, and identity services.

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