Nebius
Nebius is an AI cloud company providing a full-stack platform engineered from silicon to API for the complete machine learning lifecycle, from data processing and training to fine-tuning and inference. The platform combines custom hardware with non-virtualized GPUs and InfiniBand, along with managed services like Nebius AI Studio and Nebius Token Factory for cost-effective model deployment. It also features Nebius Echo, an AI agent built into the console that allows users to manage infrastructure through natural language commands.
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Agents
- Developer Tools
- Enterprise Software
- Software Only
Funding
Raised to date
$700MRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
across 1 round
NOI$700M · Private Equity
Announced Dec 2024 · from article date
Disclosed cumulative: $700M
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
AI is rapidly moving from research into large-scale production systems, but building and scaling AI workloads requires complex infrastructure that spans the entire machine learning lifecycle. Organizations struggle with fragmented tools, lengthy cluster setup times, and the operational burden of managing hardware, MLOps tooling, and inference serving across different environments.
Solution
Nebius provides a unified AI cloud platform designed to manage the full ML lifecycle—from data processing and training through fine-tuning and inference—all in one place. The platform is built on custom hardware with non-virtualized GPUs and InfiniBand networking, delivering raw performance with industry-leading reliability. It offers self-service access to clusters in minutes, elastic consumption options from small experiments to global-scale environments, and integrated MLOps tooling, serverless compute, and managed inference services. Nebius also includes Nebius Echo, an AI agent built into the console that answers questions, shows resource states, and executes resource-creation requests in natural language, reducing the time developers spend on infrastructure setup and configuration.
Target Audience
Primary customers are AI builders, startups, and enterprises across industries including healthcare and life sciences, robotics and physical AI, financial services, media and entertainment, and retail, who need scalable infrastructure for training, fine-tuning, and deploying AI models in production.
Features
- Custom hardware with non-virtualized GPUs and InfiniBand networking for high-performance training and inference workloads
- Nebius Echo, an AI agent in the web console that provides natural-language control over cloud resources, including documentation Q&A, resource state queries, and resource creation
- Managed Service for SkyPilot with one-click deployment for scheduling batch jobs without manual control plane setup
- Nebius Token Factory, a full-stack managed inference platform with system-level optimization and compute orchestration for running models reliably in production
- Key Management Service (KMS) with customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for regulated data deletion and compliance requirements
- Workload Identity Federation (WIF) for secure cross-cloud communication using short-lived federated identities without long-lived credentials
- IAM-based access to Soperator, a managed Slurm-on-Kubernetes solution, eliminating manual credential distribution
- Flexible pricing with commitment discounts up to 35% off on-demand rates, plus preemptible and on-demand GPU instance options