Nebius to License AI Technology, Welcome Core Team From Clarifai

Paul, Weiss is advising AI cloud company Nebius on an agreement to license AI inference and compute orchestration technology from AI company Clarifai, and to hire Clarifai’s core engineering and research team, including Clarifai founder and CEO Matthew Zeiler. The agreement will further strengthen Nebius Token Factory as a full-stack inference platform following Nebius’s recently announced acquisition of Eigen AI, on which Paul, Weiss also advised. Financial details were not disclosed.

The Paul, Weiss team is led by corporate partners Michael Vogel and Austin Pollet, and includes, among others, partners Udi Grofman and Steven Kaye; antitrust partners Christopher Wilson and Yuni Sobel; tax partner Reuven Garrett and counsel Daniel Bleiberg; executive compensation partners Lawrence Witdorchic and Arian Mossanenzadeh; and litigation counsel Audrey Paquet.