Nebius Acquires Eigen AI for $615M to Enhance Token Factory's AI Inference Platform

May 1, 2026
Nebius Acquires Eigen AI for $615M to Enhance Token Factory's AI Inference Platform
  • Nebius’ co-founder and Chief Business Officer said the integration will deliver market-leading model performance and unit economics backed by massive compute capacity at scale.

  • Nebius has agreed to acquire Eigen AI to strengthen its Token Factory as a frontier managed inference platform, aiming to deliver top-tier model performance and economics at scale.

  • Eigen AI’s founding team will establish a Nebius engineering and research presence in the San Francisco Bay Area, expanding the company’s U.S. footprint.

  • Eigen AI provides full-stack optimization—from post-training and fine-tuning to production inference—designed to boost performance on existing hardware without extra engineering effort.

  • The deal, valued at $615 million in stock and cash, is expected to close in the coming weeks subject to antitrust clearance and standard closing conditions.

  • Joint deployments have already delivered leading performance rankings on Artificial Analysis, demonstrating accelerated inference for major models.

  • MIT-aligned Eigen AI technology has demonstrated optimized versions of models such as DeepSeek, Llama, and Qwen, achieving benchmark-leading speeds.

  • Eigen AI was founded by MIT HAN Lab alumni, with co-founders Ryan Hanrui Wang, Wei-Chen Wang, and Di Jin, who have contributed to Sparse Attention, AWQ, and post-training for Meta’s Llama models.

  • The company brings techniques like Sparse Attention and Activation-aware Weight Quantization to boost model deployment efficiency.

  • Token Factory, Nebius’ production platform for open-source AI models, has been growing to offer scalable options for users.

  • Supported open-source models include GPT-OSS, Gemma, Qwen, Llama, DeepSeek, and others, with Eigen AI spanning from post-training to production inference.

  • Nebius clients will gain access to Eigen AI and Nebius’s global infrastructure, with emphasis on faster time-to-production and improved unit economics.

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