Nebius adds Clarifai team, inference IP for Token Factory
Nebius has announced that Clarifai's core engineering and research team, including founder and CEO Matthew Zeiler, is joining Nebius, with Zeiler taking on the role of SVP, Research. Additionally, Nebius has licensed Clarifai's inference and compute orchestration technology and acquired its patent portfolio covering AI inference. This move is intended to strengthen Nebius Token Factory as a full-stack inference platform, following Nebius's acquisition of Eigen AI, by adding system-level optimization to existing model-level optimization.
Key Takeaways
- Matthew Zeiler will join Nebius as SVP, Research and lead frontier AI work.
- A select group of Clarifai engineers and researchers will join Nebius’s infrastructure teams.
- Nebius licensed Clarifai’s inference and compute orchestration technology.
- Nebius will acquire Clarifai’s patent portfolio covering AI inference, compute orchestration, and related technologies.
- The license does not include Clarifai’s legacy computer vision models or its US government and defense programs.
Why It Matters
Nebius is adding both talent and IP to push Token Factory toward a fuller inference stack, with Eigen AI contributing model-level optimization and Clarifai adding system-level optimization and compute orchestration. That gives Nebius a clearer technical story around running complex AI models reliably in production, backed by its global capacity and managed inference platform. The immediate thing to watch is whether Nebius discloses any integration milestones or product changes for Token Factory after the Clarifai team and technology move over.
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