Nvidia's $2B Bet on Nebius: The Neocloud Layer Is the Real AI Battleground
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The headlines about AI are usually about models - GPT-whatever, Claude-something, Gemini-latest. But this week's biggest move isn't about a model at all. It's about who gets to run them. Nvidia just announced a $2B investment in Nebius, an Amsterdam-based cloud startup, taking an 8.3% stake in the company. Nebius is building what the industry is starting to call "neocloud" infrastructure - purpose-built AI compute capacity that sits between the hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and the end users who need to train and inference models at serious scale.