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Quantinuum says its Helios trapped ion computer reached 99.9995 percent logical fidelity using a colour code, about five errors per million operations, ten times better than its own result a month earlier. This is a company announcement, not yet a peer reviewed paper, and should be read as a claim.
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In a press release dated October 19, 2026, Quantinuum announced what it calls a world record in quantum error correction: a logical fidelity of 99.9995 percent on its commercial Helios system, achieved with a colour code inside its error correction architecture. The company says this is ten times lower error than its own record from the previous month and that the result sits within the accuracy range it needs for Apollo, the universal fault tolerant machine it plans for 2029.
The numbers come from the company, and the comparison to other hardware is Quantinuum's framing. Even read cautiously, two tenfold improvements on the same hardware in two months is the pattern that matters: error correction is improving faster than the five year planning cycles most infrastructure operators run on.
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