⚡Reflection Inks $1B Nebius Compute Deal for Open Models
TL;DR
US open-model lab Reflection AI signed a $1 billion compute deal with European infrastructure firm Nebius for access to Nvidia's newest chips. It follows a roughly $6.3 billion SpaceX compute arrangement weeks earlier.
US open-model lab Reflection AI signed a $1 billion compute deal with European infrastructure firm Nebius for access to Nvidia's newest chips. It follows a roughly $6.3 billion SpaceX compute arrangement weeks earlier.
Key Points
$1B deal gives Reflection access to Nvidia's latest GPUs via Nebius
Nebius is the former international arm of Russian tech group Yandex
Reflection is valued at $8B and has raised close to $2.6B from Nvidia, Sequoia, Lightspeed
Comes weeks after a SpaceX deal at ~$150M/month, up to $6.3B through 2029
Founded in 2024 by two ex-Google DeepMind researchers to be a US open frontier lab
Why It Matters
Open-weight labs are now signing nine- and ten-figure compute contracts, the clearest sign that the open-vs-closed fight is being funded like a real arms race.
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Why does this matter?
Open-weight labs are now signing nine- and ten-figure compute contracts, the clearest sign that the open-vs-closed fight is being funded like a real arms race.
What happened?
US open-model lab Reflection AI signed a $1 billion compute deal with European infrastructure firm Nebius for access to Nvidia's newest chips. It follows a roughly $6.3 billion SpaceX compute arrangement weeks earlier.
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