Reflection AI signs $1B compute deal with Nebius

Reflection AI, a US startup building open frontier models, signed a $1 billion deal for Nvidia chips from European infrastructure firm Nebius, the former international arm of Yandex. It follows a similar SpaceX compute deal weeks earlier as AI firms race to lock in capacity for training and deployment. Valued at $8 billion, Reflection is among several open-weight developers drawing fresh attention as debate rages over closed models, sharpened by data-retention worries and Trump-administration pressure that temporarily restricted Anthropic's and OpenAI's most powerful models.

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