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Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack
ThinkingNews Desk · how this was written
London-based Nscale is acquiring AI-software firm Anyscale for roughly $1.65 billion. The deal expands Nscale’s portfolio, adding Anyscale’s software that improves AI workload efficiency to its existing power and data-centre assets, and moves the company further up the AI compute stack.
Written from all 3 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- TechMeme·London-based Nscale agrees to acquire Anyscale, a source says for ~$1.65B; Anyscale, which helps AI workloads run more efficiently, had a $1B+ valuation in 2022 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
- The Next Web·Nscale owns the power and the data centres. For ~$1.65bn, it just bought the software too.
- TechCrunch·Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack
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