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Oracle and Quantinuum have entered into a multi-year agreement under which Quantinuum will physically deploy its Helios quantum computer in the U.S. within an OCI AI data center. Oracle will offer access to the system as a managed OCI service. Financial details of the agreement, the first customers, and exact timelines have not been disclosed, aside from the announcement of a preview “in the coming months.”
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Most cloud-based quantum services operate through brokers: a customer sends a task from a hyperscaler’s console to equipment in the developer’s data center and receives the result back. Hosting Helios within the OCI data center integrates the quantum processor into a single network with Oracle’s graphics accelerators and HPC capabilities, using shared security protocols. This makes hybrid tasks feasible, with continuous data exchange between classical and quantum chips.
The Helios model was launched in November 2025: it is a trapped-ion system with 98 physical qubits, 48 logical qubits, and an average accuracy of 99.921% for two-qubit gates. Power consumption is 60 kW, which is significantly less than the tens of megawatts consumed by supercomputers, although the comparison is limited due to the narrow range of current tasks.
Quantinuum President Rajib Hazra noted that integrating Helios into the OCI environment will enable the creation of a deeply integrated space for hybrid computing and accelerate its adoption. OCI Vice President Mahesh Thiagarajan is more cautious: the goal is to provide developers with a secure tool to explore how quantum computing can complement AI and HPC workloads on OCI. Priorities include drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, and logistics.
Oracle is entering the market late: AWS has been offering Braket since August 2020, Microsoft launched Azure Quantum in February 2022, and IBM has been providing access since 2016. What sets Oracle apart is that it is a single provider with a physical presence, rather than a catalog of remote processors.
For Quantinuum, the deal marks the second confirmation of its success this year. In June, it held an IPO on Nasdaq at $60 per share, raising $1.68 billion at a valuation of $14 billion (demand exceeded supply by more than 20 times) with revenue of $30.9 million and a loss of $192.6 million for 2025. The stock trades under the ticker symbol QNT. The roadmap calls for the launch of Sol in 2027 and Apollo in 2029.
Europe is taking a different path: Finland’s IQM is deploying superconducting systems directly in scientific data centers. Oracle has adapted this approach for the commercial cloud. Investors reacted cautiously: Oracle shares fell 3.69% to $145.48, while Quantinuum shares dropped 0.94% to $56.06.
The deal, which lacks financial details and timelines, reflects the state of the quantum industry over the past 10 years. The companies have not yet provided any practical use cases with tangible results, and Quantinuum’s revenue of $30.9 million, coupled with a loss of $192.6 million, is indicative of the scale of the entire commercial quantum market.
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