NEBIUS SELLS $1B AI CAPACITY TO REFLECTION
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Cloud provider Nebius Group has agreed to sell over $1 billion in computing power to Reflection AI, a startup founded by two former Google DeepMind researchers focused on developing artificial intelligence models.
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