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Nebius paid $643 million for 20 people because inference is where the money is

Nebius pays $643M for Eigen AI, a 20-person MIT spinout that maximises tokens per GPU. In the neocloud race, inference optimisation is the competitive edge.

Nebius Agrees to Acquire Eigen AI, Strengthening Nebius Token Factory as a Frontier Inference Platform

Nebius (NASDAQ: NBIS), the AI cloud company, today announced an agreement to acquire Eigen AI, a leading inference and model optimization company.

$643 million deal: Nebius supercharges AI inference with Eigen buy

Nebius Group N.V. NBIS shares rose in Friday’s premarket session as the company agreed to acquire Eigen AI to expand its AI ...
Blockonomi

Nebius (NBIS) Shares Surge 8.5% on $643M Eigen AI Acquisition Deal

Nebius (NBIS) stock surges 8.51% after announcing $643M acquisition of Eigen AI, gaining MIT inference expertise for its ...
Forbes

The Rise Of The AI Inference Economy

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI. When OpenAI’s ChatGPT first exploded onto the scene in late 2022, it sparked a global obsession ...

Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1

Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is back with a new open weights large language model that promises performance to rival the best ...

Featherless.ai pulls in $20M to scale serverless hosting for open-source AI models

Featherless.ai Inc., a serverless inference platform startup that hosts open-source artificial intelligence models, today ...
Business Wire

Vultr Launches Cloud Inference to Simplify Model Deployment and Automatically Scale AI Applications Globally

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vultr, the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing platform, today announced the launch of Vultr Cloud Inference. This new serverless platform ...
Tencent

Tencent Unveils Hy3 preview; Model Enhances Agent Capabilities and Real-World Usability

Tencent today launched and open sourced the Hy3 preview model. It is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that integrates both ...

Train-to-Test scaling explained: How to optimize your end-to-end AI compute budget for inference

AI reasoning does not necessarily require spending huge amounts on frontier models. Instead, smaller models can yield ...
ZDNet

NVIDIA doubles down on AI language models and inference as a substrate for the Metaverse, in data centers, the cloud and at the edge

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