OVHcloud makes its Quantum Platform available. The service provides organizations access to at least eight quantum systems.
French cloud provider OVHcloud introduces its Quantum Platform, a Quantum-as-a-Service offering that allows companies to experiment with quantum technology in the cloud. The first available processor is the Pasqal Orion Beta QPU from the French company Pasqal.
Through the service, OVH aims to quickly offer the eight most advanced quantum computers of the moment. The platform is designed to help organizations test use cases without their own specialized infrastructure.
OVHcloud combines access to physical quantum systems with its existing offering of quantum emulators. The company currently offers nine emulators on its infrastructure, serving nearly a thousand developers and researchers.
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With the addition of Pasqal’s QPU, users can now deploy both emulators and a real quantum system within the same environment. This should make experimenting with different models easier.
European Autonomy
OVHcloud plans to integrate eight additional QPUs by the end of 2027, seven of which are from European suppliers. This is part of the company’s strategy to gradually expand its quantum portfolio.
With the new service, OVHcloud takes a significant step in its ambition to support a European quantum ecosystem. The company introduced its first emulator in 2022. According to OVHcloud, the new offering should enable organizations to test, iterate, and learn faster within a controlled cloud environment.
Pasqal views the collaboration as a move towards greater European digital autonomy. By keeping both hardware and cloud infrastructure within Europe, the company believes it lays the foundation for an independent quantum landscape.
Competition from the US
Although quantum supremacy has yet to be achieved, and quantum computers do not yet consistently outperform traditional systems in certain workloads, more and more quantum systems are becoming available. Pioneer D-Wave, for example, offers systems through its own Leap cloud service, but many other predominantly American providers also offer access to quantum systems and emulators via the cloud.
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For instance, IBM has a Quantum Cloud, and Microsoft offers access to its own Majorana 1 processor via Azure Quantum. AWS has Braket for quantum computing in the cloud, and Google aims to attract projects with Cirq. OVHcloud now launches the first European alternative with the Quantum Platform.