Nebius shares fell 1.5% in morning trading Thursday after the company said it acquired Israeli AI infrastructure startup Inferize. Financial terms were not disclosed, while Calcalist estimated the transaction at $100 million to $150 million. Inferize’s engineers will join Nebius’s inference team, and its software will be integrated into Token Factory, Nebius’s managed platform for serving open-source AI models. The technology is designed to reduce cold starts, the delay between launching an AI model and processing requests, while limiting unused GPU capacity as workloads and customer demand change. The acquisition expands Nebius’s AI inference and model-optimization capabilities alongside its $643 million Eigen AI acquisition and undisclosed-value purchase of Clarifai. Inferize co-founder Guy Bortnikov previously co-founded Granulate, which Intel acquired in 2022.