Nebius Group Acquires Inferize

07:40 AM EDT, 10/01/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Nebius Group (NBIS) said Thursday that it has acquired artificial intelligence infrastructure tech startup Inferize, which owns proprietary technology designed to shorten the time needed to launch and scale large AI models. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Inferize's technology reduces the time needed to load models to shorten the process time and cut costs, Nebius said. Nebius said it is folding Inferize's team into its managed inference platform, Nebius Token Factory. Shares of Nebius were up nearly 2% in recent Thursday premarket activity.