Quantinuum and Oracle partner to bring quantum computer Helios to Oracle Cloud

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Quantinuum and Oracle have entered a multi year strategic partnership to bring quantum computing directly into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, giving OCI customers access to Quantinuum's commercial quantum computer Helios alongside the platforms existing high performance computing and GPU infrastructure

Under the deal, OCI customers will be able to access Helios directly through Oracle's quantum service, the two companies say they plan to jointly explore how hybrid quantum AI infrastructure could address some of the most computationally intensive challenges facing enterprises today, specifically citing materials discovery, drug development, logistics, energy and financial modelling as problem areas that already push the limits of what todays computing architectures can realistically handle, the partnership is also explicitly framed around broadening access for universities and research institutions pursuing scientific discovery and education, not just enterprise commercial customers

Quantinuum president and CEO Rajeeb Hazra framed the deal around a shared bet on where enterprise computing is heading, saying we believe the next phase of enterprise computing will be shaped by bringing quantum, AI and high performance computing together, he added that 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, the two companies describe the partnership as reflecting a shared vision that the future of enterprise computing will be built on the convergence of AI, classical supercomputing and quantum computing rather than any one of those three existing in isolation

This lands just weeks after a separate but related agreement, Quantinuum signed an accord in July with Rolls-Royce, quantum software company Riverlane, and EPCC, the UK's National Supercomputing Centre based at the University of Edinburgh, specifically to explore the quantum computing capabilities that future industrial workflows will need, citing gas turbine design as one concrete example, taken together the two deals show Quantinuum pursuing a genuinely dual pronged commercialisation strategy, embedding directly into a major hyperscale cloud platform to reach enterprise customers broadly through Oracle, while simultaneously running deep, narrowly scoped industrial partnerships to prove out specific high value use cases with a single sophisticated customer like Rolls-Royce

The deal arrives amid a genuinely active period for UK linked quantum and AI infrastructure investment more broadly, with UK semiconductor funding reported to have already reached 237 million pounds so far in 2026, more than the whole of 2025 combined, and separate chip design firm OLIX recently valued at more than 2 billion pounds following a major funding round, suggesting the underlying capital environment for deep tech infrastructure spanning both classical and quantum computing in the UK is genuinely strengthening across multiple fronts simultaneously right now

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