Oracle and Quantinuum said today that they’ve signed a multi-year partnership to bring Quantinuum’s planned 98-qubit Helios quantum computer to a U.S.-based Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center.
The pitch is a hybrid setup. Classical computing would handle data preparation, orchestration, and post-processing, while Quantinuum’s Helios takes on the tougher quantum calculations. That gives enterprises a way to experiment without having to build specialized hardware themselves. For Oracle, it also expands the company’s quantum offering through its cloud business, rather than requiring it to develop its own machine.
The two companies said they see early use cases in drug discovery, financial modeling, and materials science. Longer term, they also pointed to possible relevance in manufacturing, logistics, and climate modeling. They didn’t disclose financial terms, and any revenue impact still hinges on customer adoption and on whether enterprises can actually find problems where quantum computing delivers a real advantage. If you follow enterprise cloud and quantum computing, this is one to keep an eye on, especially now that Oracle is joining AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud in the quantum-as-a-service race.
You can’t download Helios yet, but Quantinuum plans to make it available through Oracle Cloud, and the deal gives Quantinuum, which went public in June and, according to the company, posted 279% year over year to $8 million and projected full-year 2026 revenue of $28 million to $32 million, a much larger route to market.
Author: Chema Carvajal Sarabia
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