Nebius agrees to acquire Tavily for agentic search capabilities

Nebius announced an agreement to acquire Tavily to add agentic search to its AI cloud platform. The deal brings real-time search infrastructure into Nebius's AI cloud platform. Nebius is headquartered in Amsterdam and listed on Nasdaq under the ticker NBIS. The acquisition advances Nebius's strategy to build a unified platform where vertical AI companies and enterprises can build, tune and run autonomous agents. Tavily's technology will complement Nebius Token Factory, which provides high-performance inference for agents to reason, by supplying real-time web access for factual accuracy. Customers will gain architecture to build autonomous agents that navigate the web, verify facts and execute complex real-world tasks without patching together disparate vendors. Roman Chernin, co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Nebius, said the company is building the complete platform for anyone who wants to build AI products, agents or services. He added that Tavily has proven strong developer adoption and that the acquisition brings the search layer directly into the stack so developers can focus on their applications. The Tavily team, including founder and CEO Rotem Weiss, will join Nebius and continue leading development of the Tavily product under its current brand while serving existing customers. Rotem Weiss said Tavily is on a mission to onboard the next billion AI agents to the web and that joining Nebius accelerates the ability to scale globally. The transaction is expected to close in the next few weeks subject to customary closing conditions. The transaction value has not been disclosed.