Nebius Launches First NVIDIA Blackwell General Availability in Europe, Expanding AI Cloud Capabilities

Nebius, a technology company listed on Nasdaq, announced the first general availability of NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip capacity in Europe, significantly boosting its efforts to build comprehensive AI infrastructure. This move is aimed at accelerating AI innovation at scale, providing European innovators—be it startups, enterprises, developers, or researchers—with the tools necessary for advancing the next generation of AI applications. Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of Nebius, emphasized the company's mission: "Our goal is to empower AI innovation in Europe and beyond by integrating NVIDIA's cutting-edge computing and enterprise-grade software into the Nebius AI Cloud platform. This will enable a wide range of entities to build, scale, and deploy advanced AI applications efficiently." Nebius further announced several integrations with NVIDIA's accelerated computing platform, including: 1. Expansion of Nebius AI Cloud with NVIDIA AI Enterprise: This software stack includes robust tools like NVIDIA NIM microservices and NVIDIA NeMo, enhancing support for enterprise use cases and national AI projects. 2. First-to-market Access to NVIDIA Blackwell via NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton: This offering will provide cutting-edge GPU capabilities to users. 3. First-in-Europe Access to NVIDIA Hopper GPUs through NVIDIA Brev Platform: These powerful GPUs are optimized for AI workloads, offering significant performance improvements. 4. RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition: Expected to be available later this year, this server edition will cater to high-end graphics and compute needs. Early adoption of NVIDIA Blackwell by Nebius has already proved beneficial. In collaboration with LMArena and NVIDIA, Nebius brought LMArena’s Prompt-to-Leaderboard (P2L) system into production, showcasing the platform’s flexibility and scalability. P2L routes real-time user queries to the most accurate and cost-effective models, utilizing live feedback for continuous optimization. Wei-Lin Chiang of LMArena highlighted the impact: "The NVIDIA GB200 platform and Nebius’s infrastructure enabled rapid scaling of P2L, significantly improving accuracy and efficiency." The integration of NVIDIA AI Enterprise into Nebius AI Cloud broadens the application scope for various industries. For instance, Prima Mente, a biotech company researching neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s, leverages Nebius’s GPU Cloud for its epigenetics research. Ravi Solanki, CEO of Prima Mente, explained: "Nebius’s GPU Cloud offers elastic, cost-efficient HPC capabilities, allowing us to train and fine-tune our 90M to 7B-parameter epigenetic models quickly. This accelerates our progress in delivering advanced brain-health diagnostics to researchers and clinicians globally." Nebius also stands out as the first European-headquartered Reference Platform NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP). This status ensures compliance with EU regulatory standards, making Nebius ideal for national and sovereign AI projects. A notable example is Milestone Systems’ Project Hafnia, which collaborates with NVIDIA and Nebius to create a compliant, anonymized video data platform for training AI vision-language models. Thomas Jensen, CEO of Milestone Systems, stated: "Project Hafnia, built on NVIDIA, addresses EU commitments to transparency, fairness, and regulatory integrity in AI technology. With Nebius as the European cloud provider, we can process and store high-quality, compliant video data locally, fostering the development of smart city AI solutions." Nebius is committed to delivering high-performance, scalable, and compliant AI infrastructure. Headquartered in Amsterdam, it operates R&D hubs across Europe, North America, and Israel. The company’s AI Cloud is designed specifically for intensive AI workloads, incorporating proprietary software and hardware to meet the demands of AI builders. Industry insiders have praised Nebius’s advancements. Dave Salvator, director of accelerated computing products at NVIDIA, commented: "Nebius is pivotal in bringing the power of the AI factory to Europe’s AI transformation. By focusing on performance, scalability, and compliance, they are enabling faster and more efficient development and deployment of reasoning, agentic, and physical AI applications." Nebius’s strategic partnerships and compliance with EU regulations position it as a key player in the global AI market. As one of the few companies with Reference Platform NVIDIA Cloud Partner status, Nebius is well-equipped to drive AI innovation, ensuring that Europe remains at the forefront of technological advancements. To learn more about Nebius and its AI solutions, visit www.nebius.com. Nebius’s announcement underscores its dedication to supporting diverse and demanding AI projects, making it an essential resource for European AI innovation. The company’s robust infrastructure and alignment with regulatory standards are expected to facilitate significant advancements in AI, benefiting a wide range of industries and applications.