Nebius首席执行官Arkady Volozh表示，这笔融资将支持该公司“GPU集群”的扩展。Arkady Volozh补充称，他希望该公司能尽早获得备受期待的英伟达Blackwell芯片，但来自英伟达的投资并不能保证这一点，“这笔交易与GPU无关”，“但是，这当然表明了我们的密切关系，我们希望这将有所影响”。他还表示，预计Nebius将在2025年进行另一次“可能更大规模”的融资。Nebius will conduct a private placement of 33.3 million shares of stocks at a price of $21 per share to raise $0.7 billion, with investors including nvidia and Accel Partners LP participating in this funding.
According to a statement on Monday, Nebius (NBIS.US) will conduct a private placement of 33.3 million shares of stocks at a price of $21 per share to raise $0.7 billion, with investors including nvidia (NVDA.US) and Accel Partners LP participating in this funding. Boosted by this news, Nebius shares surged over 15% in pre-market trading on Monday as of the time of publication.
After streamlining some businesses, Nebius is focusing on providing cloud computing services for ai and competing with companies like CoreWeave and larger cloud operators. Significant funds are flowing from large enterprises and financial investors to support technologies that underpin ai. CoreWeave has also received backing from nvidia, and the company is planning to go public with an estimated valuation of $23 billion.
Nebius CEO Arkady Volozh stated that this funding will support the expansion of the company's GPU clusters. Arkady Volozh added that he hopes the company can soon acquire the highly anticipated nvidia Blackwell chips, but the investment from nvidia does not guarantee this, "This trade is not related to GPUs," he said, "However, this certainly shows our close relationship, and we hope this will have an impact." He also mentioned that Nebius is expected to pursue another "possibly larger" funding round in 2025.
