Inference

Israeli cloud infrastructure company Nebius has acquired AI startup Inferize in a deal estimated at up to $150 million, just eight months after the startup's founding.

NASDAQ-listed cloud firm Nebius has acquired Israeli startup Inferize for up to $150 million. Inferize specializes in AI inference optimization, tackling the cold start problem to maximize GPU efficiency.

As the AI industry shifts from training to inference, tech giants like Nvidia, Google, and AWS are adopting heterogeneous architectures with specialized chips to optimize performance and reduce the cost per million tokens.