Avride x Nebius Group

Autonomous-driving company (a subsidiary of Nebius; spun out of the former Yandex self-driving group) operating BOTH sidewalk delivery robots and robotaxis, primarily through a partnership with Uber announced in October 2024. Avride secured up to $375 million in strategic investment commitments from Uber and Nebius to support expansion. Robotaxi: Avride-equipped fully-electric [Hyundai](/companies/hyundai-group) Ioniq 5 vehicles provide public passenger rides on the Uber platform in Dallas (launched December 2025) and Austin, with in-vehicle safety operators present. Delivery: Avride sidewalk delivery robots operate on Uber Eats in Austin, Dallas, and Jersey City (and Philadelphia), and on Grubhub at university campuses including Ohio State. In May 2026, NHTSA opened an investigation into Avride after 16 robotaxi crashes (Dec 2025-March 2026) in Dallas and Austin, citing 'inappropriate assertiveness and insufficient competence'; the company's delivery robots have also drawn scrutiny including a Jersey City cyclist-injury lawsuit.

Nebius Group is the Amsterdam-headquartered AI compute cloud that emerged in 2024 from the restructuring of Yandex N.V., after the Russian search company's founder Arkady Volozh divested the Russia-based businesses and kept the international assets. It trades on Nasdaq under NBIS and reported roughly $530 million in 2025 revenue, a figure the company has guided sharply higher as new capacity comes online. Alongside the core AI cloud sit adjacent holdings: autonomous-driving unit Avride, edtech TripleTen, and equity stakes in Toloka and ClickHouse. The operator sits in the training-first tier of the neocloud pack, positioning against CoreWeave and Crusoe with vertically integrated data centers rather than pure colocation. Its anchor site is a self-built campus in Mantsala, Finland, joined by a colocated GPU cluster at Equinix Paris, an under-construction cluster in Kansas City, Missouri, and a 300 MW campus rising in Vineland, New Jersey. In 2026 Nebius disclosed a multi-year capacity contract with Microsoft valued in the multi-billion-dollar range, and Nvidia committed a $2 billion strategic investment in March 2026, cementing its status as a preferred Nvidia partner across the Hopper and Blackwell generations. Distinctively for a neocloud, Nebius publishes on-demand and preemptible per-GPU-hour pricing directly on its site, ships a managed inference product it calls Token Factory, and pairs the raw compute business with a research and developer-programs arm inherited from its Yandex engineering roots. The February 2026 acquisition of AI search company Tavily for roughly $400 million signals a push up the stack into agent tooling rather than staying purely at the infrastructure layer.