Nebius snaps up Clarifai’s compute orchestration tech and talent to enhance AI inference
Dutch artificial intelligence infrastructure giant Nebius Group N.V. said today it’s recruiting the core engineering team from AI orchestration software firm Clarifai Inc. in an effort to boost its managed inference services.
As part of the deal, Nebius is also snapping up Clarifai’s portfolio of patents and licensing its inference and compute orchestration technology, the companies said.
Nebius did not disclose how much it’s paying for the “acqui-hire,” but the move allows it to get its hands on some significant talent that will bolster its own research teams. That talent includes Clarifai founder and Chief Executive Matthew Zeiler, a pioneering researcher in the machine learning world, who will join Nebius as its new senior vice president of research. It also includes a select group of veteran researchers and engineers who’ve collectively spent decades building production-grade AI infrastructure systems.
Clarifai sold a full-stack AI development platform that’s used to create intelligent applications that leverage both structured and unstructured data as a source of knowledge. With its platform, developers can train the AI models that power their applications using very specific datasets, thanks to features including its vast data lake, an automated data labeling tool and a search tool for indexing that information.
