Nebius acquires Clarifai team and licenses inference technology

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Nebius welcomes Clarifai’s core team and licenses inference IP to strengthen Nebius Token Factory

May 12, 2026 5:37 PM EDT

Brings Clarifais deep expertise in system-level inference optimization and production AI to Nebius's managed inference platform and global capacity Clarifai founder and CEO Matthew Zeiler, Ph.D., to lead Nebius research team

AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nebius (NASDAQ: NBIS), the AI cloud company, today announced that the core engineering and research team from Clarifai, led by founder and CEO Matthew Zeiler, is joining Nebius. Nebius has also agreed to license Clarifais inference and compute orchestration technology.

The transaction will further strengthen Nebius Token Factory as a... More