Quantum computing company Quantinuum has signed a multi-year strategic partnership with Oracle to bring quantum computing to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Under the partnership, OCI customers will have direct access to Quantinuum’s Helios commercial quantum computer.
Helios, which is a hybrid design that works with AI and classical computing infrastructure, was launched commercially in November 2025. It is Quantinuum’s third-generation quantum computer. This is a 98-physical-qubit trapped-ion system, which, according to Quantinuum, has been used in demonstrations involving 48 logical qubits, achieving an average two-qubit gate fidelity of 99.921%.
The two companies plan to explore how hybrid quantum-artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure can be applied to tackle computationally intensive challenges facing businesses along with broadening access to quantum technology for universities and research institutions to support scientific discovery and education.
Oracle and Quantinuum sees the future of enterprise computing as a convergence of AI, classical supercomputing and quantum computing. They believe that complex problems across materials discovery, drug development, logistics, energy and financial modeling could be tackled using quantum technology.
“We believe the next phase of enterprise computing will be shaped by bringing quantum, AI and high-performance computing together,” said Rajeeb Hazra, president and CEO of Quantinuum. “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.”
Discussing enterprise adoption, Heather West, global quantum research lead at IDC, said: “Deploying quantum systems within private cloud environments enables organisations to integrate quantum computing into existing AI and HPC workflows through familiar cloud infrastructure and development tools, reducing barriers to adoption and making hybrid quantum-classical computing a practical part of enterprise IT.”
Along with the ability to solve problems that would not be possible on supercomputers based on a classical computing architecture, according to Quantinuum, a single Helios system has an estimated power draw of less than 1% of the draw reported for leading supercomputers.
Commenting on the partnership, Mahesh Thiagarajan, executive vice-president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, said: “AI has changed what organisations can imagine, and we believe quantum computing can expand what they’re able to solve. By bringing Quantinuum’s Helios to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we want 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.”
Quantinuum and Oracle said the hybrid architecture means OCI customers can expect to gain managed, secure access to cloud-hosted quantum computing without having to procure, install or operate dedicated hardware or specialised facilities. By operating on-premise in OCI’s infrastructure, Quantinuum and Oracle anticipate it will be able to integrate seamlessly with existing OCI compute, networking, storage, identity and data services under the same governance and access controls customers already use.
Oracle plans to preview its OCI quantum service in the coming months, giving developers a streamlined way to move from simulation to execution on real quantum computing hardware. The planned OCI quantum service is expected to combine Quantinuum’s development stack with support for open source hybrid programming frameworks, helping developers build, test and refine quantum-classical applications more efficiently.
