AI & Enterprise

Nebius to buy AI inference optimisation firm Eigen AI for $643 million

AI cloud platform company Nebius Group said on May 1 it will acquire AI inference and model optimisation company Eigen AI for about $643 million. The purchase price will be paid in cash and Class A shares. Eigen AI’s optimisation technology will be integrated into Nebius’ managed inference platform, Nebius Token Factory. The Eigen AI founding team is made up of alumni of MIT’s HAN Lab.

Industry

Nvidia steps up push into South Korea\'s AI ecosystem with CUDA-style lock-in strategy

Nvidia has released 7 million synthetic Korean-language personas for free and then added the multimodal model Nemotron3 Nano Omni, signalling the rollout of a four-step lock-in package linking models, data, frameworks and hardware in South Korea. The Nemotron-Personas-Korea dataset is available on Hugging Face under a CC BY 4.0 licence. Nvidia is also expanding the Nemotron3 lineup and open-sourcing post-training tools in its Nemo framework, while tying performance to its Blackwell hardware features.