Helios starts with customers Amgen, BMW Group, JPMorganChase and SoftBank Corp.
/PRNewswire/ — Quantinuum, the global leader in quantum computing, today announced the launch of Helios, the world’s most accurate commercial general-purpose quantum computer, designed to accelerate the adoption of quantum computing in enterprises. With the highest fidelity†of all commercial systems and a novel real-time control engine, Helios enables developers to program a quantum computer in the same way they program heterogeneous classical computers. A new, modern Python-based programming language called Guppy enables developers to seamlessly combine hybrid computing capabilities – quantum and classical – in a single program. Helios is now available to customers via Quantinuum’s cloud service and on-premise offering.
“The next turning point in computing begins today,” says Dr. Rajeeb Hazra, President and CEO of Quantinuum. “For the first time, companies can access a high-precision quantum computer to create real-world impact and transform the way industries innovate – from drug discovery to finance to advanced materials.”
Helios enables GenAI models to be augmented with quantum-generated data, unlocking the full potential of AI in areas such as data analysis, materials design and quantum chemistry. To accelerate GenQAI, Quantinuum is expanding its partnership with NVIDIA and integrating NVIDIA GB200 with Helios via NVIDIA NVQLink to develop applications for specific end markets. Additionally, Quantinuum will transition to NVIDIA Accelerated Computing for Helios and future systems and will use Quantinuum Guppy along with the NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform to perform real-time error corrections critical to Quantinuum’s roadmap.
Quantinuum announced a growing community of early adopters and collaborators, including leading life sciences, materials and energy companies:
- Amgen: an investor and research collaborator exploring hybrid quantum machine learning to advance data-driven biologics discovery.
- BlueQubit: AI image recognition using real-world video data.
- BMW Group: Promoting sustainable mobility through material research on fuel cell catalysts.
- JPMorganChase: exploring potential opportunities for advanced financial analysis.
- SoftBank Corp.: researching organic materials for next-generation batteries, optical switches and solar cells.
Today, Quantinuum also signed a strategic partnership agreement with the National Quantum Office (NQO) and the National Quantum Computing Hub (NQCH) in Singapore, which includes access to Heliosim Land to accelerate commercial applications of quantum computing in computational biology and bioinformatics, financial modeling and optimization, advanced materials and chemistry, and combinatorial optimization. To support this strategic partnership, Quantinuum is establishing a world-class research and development center and operations center in Singapore.
Finally, Quantinuum is launching two new ecosystem programs as part of its strategy to expand the commercial reach of quantum computing. Q-Net, a new user group, will serve as a forum for customer feedback and collaboration, while a new startup partner program invites developers to build and scale third-party applications on Helios.
A blog post with further details about Helios can be read here. Visual material and scientific papers can be downloaded here.
† Fidelity: In quantum computing isFidelitya measure of how accurate a system’s calculations are. The lower the error rate of a system, the higher its reliability. Helios has the highest fidelity ever brought to market. The key performance features are listed below:
- Physical Qubits (PQ): 98PQ mit 99,921% 2-Qubit-Gate-Fidelity und 99,9975% 1-Qubit-Gate-Fidelity.
- Logic Qubits (LQ):
- 94 LQ (Error Detected) globally interlocked with better than physical performance;
- 50 LQ (Error Detected) with better performance than physical in a magnetism simulation; and
- 48 LQ (error corrected) with better than physical performance (99.99% state preparation and measurement fidelity).
Information about Quantinuum
Quantinuum is the global leader in quantum computing. The company’s quantum systems deliver the highest performance across all industry benchmarks. Quantinuum’s 630+ employees, including more than 370 scientists and engineers in the US, UK, Germany and Japan, are driving the revolution in quantum computing. For more information, visit www.quantinuum.com.
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