Reflection signs $1B compute deal with Nebius for Nvidia chips through 2029

Reflection AI, the $8B open-model startup founded by two ex-Google DeepMind researchers, signed a $1B multi-year deal for Nebius to supply Nvidia's latest chips through 2029 — weeks after a similar ~$150M/month arrangement with SpaceX. The back-to-back compute lockups mark how hard open-weight developers are now racing to secure GPUs, as US export pressure on closed models from OpenAI and Anthropic and stronger Chinese open releases push mainstream interest toward open source.

Source: techcrunch.com ↗