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Nebius

1,557 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors

Nebius operates an AI-focused cloud platform offering GPU infrastructure, MLOps tooling, and managed and serverless inference for AI training and deployment. It serves AI developers and enterprises, providing custom hardware with non-virtualized NVIDIA GPUs and InfiniBand for workloads ranging from experiments to global-scale environments.

Also known as Nebius AI Cloud

Founders & leadership

RCRoman Chernin
Roman ChernininFounder · Chief Business Officer

Investors · 4

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Nebius operates an AI-focused cloud platform spanning the full model lifecycle from training through inference. Its infrastructure is built on custom hardware with non-virtualized GPUs and InfiniBand networking, and the company emphasizes cluster provisioning in minutes, self-service access, repeatability and MTBF/MTTR reliability metrics. The platform includes built-in MLOps tooling, serverless and managed inference, and a product marketed as Nebius Token Factory for production inference workloads.

Workloads supported include large-scale distributed training with Slurm clusters, simulation and evaluation pipelines for robotics and physical AI, foundation model pretraining, and high-throughput inference. Nebius provides NVIDIA H100 and Blackwell-generation infrastructure together with scalable storage, and offers flexible consumption options intended to cover both small experiments and global-scale environments.

Business model

Nebius sells cloud compute, storage and inference capacity to AI developers and enterprises, with flexible consumption options and accompanying engineering and support services, including a free white-glove proof of concept.

Traction

Customer deployments cited on the company site include Revolut running FinCrime agents, chat orchestration and its PRAGMA transaction model on 200+ NVIDIA H100 GPUs and Nebius Token Factory while handling up to 1.2 million support tickets per month with 80% of chats completed without human intervention; Sword Health serving a 200B+ parameter model behind 10 million AI-guided sessions in 2025; RoboForce cutting AI setup pipeline time 70%; Recraft training a 20B-parameter image model; Photoroom storing 300 TB of data and executing multi-month training runs; and Shopify training foundation models on the platform.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market

Market position

Positions on GPU availability without quota delays, non-virtualized hardware and InfiniBand for raw performance, storage throughput, reliability metrics, and access to a large in-house engineering and support organization described as 500+ AI experts.

Technology

Custom-built hardware using non-virtualized GPUs interconnected with InfiniBand, NVIDIA H100 and Blackwell infrastructure, high-speed storage, Slurm-based cluster orchestration for multi-month uninterrupted training runs, FP8 precision support, plus built-in MLOps tooling and serverless and managed inference services including Nebius Token Factory.

Go-to-market

Self-service cluster provisioning combined with enterprise sales motions supported by free proof-of-concept engagements, 24/7 support by default, enterprise-grade compliance and published customer case studies.

AI developers and enterprises training or serving models, including financial services, e-commerce, healthcare, media and robotics companies; named customers include Revolut, Shopify, Sword Health, RoboForce, Recraft and Photoroom.

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
AI experts supporting customersJan 2025500 people
HeadcountAug 20261,557
Photoroom data storage usageJan 2025300 TB
Revolut chat tickets handled per month on Nebius Token FactoryJan 20251,200,000 tickets/month
Revolut NVIDIA H100 GPUs in useJan 2025200 GPUs
Sword Health AI-guided sessions deliveredJan 202510,000,000 sessions

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Founder mafia

2 people who came through Nebius went on to found or lead other companies.

Research sources · 1

primary sources listed

1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Nebius do?
Nebius runs an AI cloud offering non-virtualized GPU clusters, MLOps tooling and managed inference for training and deployment.
Who founded Nebius?
Nebius was founded by Roman Chernin.
Who are Nebius's investors?
Nebius's investors include Accel, Galdana Ventures, Kluz Ventures, Tectonic Ventures.