E105 - From $150,000 Circuit Search to Helios in Oracle Cloud — October 23, 2026

Google is funding a competition to reduce quantum circuit demands, while NVIDIA’s Riverlane stake and new decoding results highlight work on error correction. Quantinuum and Oracle have opened early cloud access to Helios, with customer outcomes still to come.

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