Nebius agrees to buy Eigen AI in about $643M deal to speed up and cut costs of AI inference
Cloud provider Nebius is acquiring 20-person startup Eigen AI, which optimizes chip performance for running (not training) AI models.
Coverage of CoreWeave, Nebius, and the rise of GPU-first "neocloud" providers.
6 stories · Updated 2026-05-01
CoreWeave surged 42% in April and Nebius drew a new Citi target, yet McKinsey and industry veterans caution that the bare-metal AI cloud model carries outsized risk.
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