Nebius’ Eigen AI acquisition puts inference efficiency at center
AI summary
Nebius acquired inference-optimization startup Eigen AI for consideration exceeding $1 billion, bringing its roughly 20-person team into the cloud provider. Eigen AI founder Hanrui Wang now leads Nebius’s Token Factory, which covers inference, post-training and agent systems, while the company positions efficient open-model serving as a core business.
In-depth insight
The deal highlights how inference optimization and large-scale open-model serving are becoming strategically important layers of the AI infrastructure stack.