Right now, we’re thrilled to announce a monumental milestone in Clarifai’s journey: we’ve entered into an settlement for Nebius (NASDAQ: NBIS), the AI cloud firm, to license our core engineering and analysis expertise and license our AI inference and compute orchestration mental property.
For over a decade, we at Clarifai had been obsessive about constructing the last word software program layer for AI. Because the business’s quickest AI inference and reasoning platform on GPUs, we centered on system-level inference optimization, empowering builders with seamless compute orchestration to run fashions cost-effectively. Now, we take our know-how to the most important stage doable.
Why We Are Thrilled to Be a part of Nebius
When the way forward for AI, it’s apparent that delivering environment friendly execution at scale requires a seamless marriage of mannequin optimization, software program design and compute orchestration.
Right here is why our crew is extremely energized about this transition:
- Constructing the 4th Hyperscaler: Nebius is on a mission to develop into the world’s fourth hyperscaler, aiming to supply extra compute to exterior prospects than any of the present cloud giants. By becoming a member of forces, our crew turns into an important ingredient in extending Nebius from the main AI infrastructure firm right into a full-stack AI powerhouse.
- Higher Collectively: Nebius builds their very own servers, permitting them to manage their technical roadmap, margins, and future. Combining their world-class infrastructure and international capability with our compute orchestration know-how will enable us to co-create a completely optimized {hardware} and software program stack for unmatched efficiency.
- Elite Pedigree and Tradition: Nebius is led by a world-class crew, together with CEO Arkady Volozh, who possesses a long-term imaginative and prescient to win within the AI area. Our crew has seen firsthand that their tradition is high-energy, mission-driven, and constructed on a “You Know Finest” philosophy that empowers staff to do what is true with out pointless crimson tape.
- Protecting the Band Collectively: Nebius did not simply need our IP; they explicitly requested for the individuals who constructed it. This implies we get to maintain our core crew collectively and proceed engaged on what we do finest, seamlessly transitioning our momentum into this new endeavor.
Supercharging the Nebius Token Manufacturing facility
Our licensing settlement is about to strengthen straight the Nebius Token Manufacturing facility to create an entire, full-stack inference platform. Whereas Nebius’s latest acquisition of Eigen AI focuses on optimizing on the mannequin stage, Clarifai optimizes the system, creating the end-to-end infrastructure required to run complicated AI fashions reliably in manufacturing.
Our efficiency optimization will compete with the business’s highest speeds, improve compute orchestration to open the cloud to a broader buyer base and push the boundaries of Nebus Token Manufacturing facility.
A New Period of Frontier AI Analysis
As a part of this transition, I’m extremely proud to share that I shall be taking up the position of SVP Analysis at Nebius. I shall be main a devoted new analysis unit centered on frontier AI improvements, together with agentic reasoning, multimodal world fashions, token effectivity, and long-term reminiscence.
The way forward for AI—from superior agentic methods to frontier fashions—relies upon solely on the infrastructure powering it. By bringing collectively our confirmed experience in coaching state-of-the-art AI fashions with Nebius’s elite crew, we’re uniquely positioned to develop into one of many strongest mixed AI groups on the planet.
The scope of the settlement is proscribed to Clarifai’s fashionable AI inference and compute orchestration know-how. It doesn’t embrace Clarifai’s legacy laptop imaginative and prescient fashions. The Clarifai model or trademark, or any mental property, merchandise, companies, or industrial preparations related to Clarifai’s US authorities and protection packages.
A Honest Thank You to Our Group and Group
As we embark on this new chapter, I wish to take a second to thank the unbelievable crew at Clarifai. Constructing this platform for over a decade was an incredible journey solely made doable by the dedication, brilliance, and onerous work of each single one who was part of this firm. Whereas not everybody shall be transitioning with us to Nebius, I’m profoundly grateful for the foundational contributions every of you has made. Your work has left an indelible mark on the AI business.
We additionally wish to thank our superb neighborhood, companions, and prospects who’ve supported Clarifai’s imaginative and prescient from the very starting. We are able to’t wait to embark on this rocket ship and construct the last word basis for the following decade of AI inference.
Onward!
Matthew Zeiler, Ph.D. Founder and CEO, Clarifai
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