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Breakthrough watchOracle is installing Quantinuum’s Helios quantum computer inside its AI cloud

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Editorial collage: a Quantinuum Helios ion-trap chamber unit beside an Oracle cloud data centre hall, a spec sheet reading 98 physical qubits, two-qubit gate fidelity 99.921 per cent, 48 logical qubits in demonstrations, a power gauge at roughly 60 kilowatts, and a torn dateline strip reading Broomfield and Austin, 11 August 2026

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Oracle is installing Quantinuum's Helios quantum computer inside its AI cloud

Oracle and Quantinuum announced a multi-year partnership on 11 August to deploy Helios, the 98-qubit trapped-ion system, inside a US Oracle Cloud AI data centre, with an OCI quantum service to preview in the coming months.

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QUBIT TECHNOLOGIES / HARDWARE APPROACHES
MAJOR HARDWARE COMPANIES / FULL-STACK PLAYERS
SOFTWARE / CLOUD / DEVELOPER PLATFORMS
CONTROL / INFRASTRUCTURE / NETWORKING
ALGORITHMS / CORE METHODS
ENGINEERING / BENCHMARKS / FAULT TOLERANCE
APPLICATIONS / SCIENCE / INDUSTRIAL USE CASES

TIME-SENSITIVEverified 14 August 2026

QUBIT TECHNOLOGIES / HARDWARE APPROACHESThe annealing company just went gate-model: D-Wave put a 99.9%-fidelity entangling gate on erasure qubits in Nature, while IBM buys its way into silicon spin.MAJOR HARDWARE COMPANIES / FULL-STACK PLAYERSQuantinuum's quarter: revenue up 279% to $8m with $2.1bn in cash, a near-five-nines logical-fidelity claim on Helios, and the machine itself moving into Oracle's cloud.SOFTWARE / CLOUD / DEVELOPER PLATFORMSOracle is installing Quantinuum's Helios inside a US OCI AI data centre under an 11 August multi-year partnership, with an OCI quantum service to preview in the coming months.

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