<p id="speakable-summary" class="wp-block-paragraph">Reflection AI, a U.S. startup vying to develop <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/reflection-raises-2b-to-be-americas-open-frontier-ai-lab-challenging-deepseek/">open models</a>, has signed a $1 billion compute deal with European AI infrastructure company Nebius. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/24/the-curious-case-of-nebius-the-publicly-traded-ai-infrastructure-startup/">Nebius</a>, formerly the international arm of Russian tech giant Yandex, will provide Reflection access to Nvidia’s latest chips. The deal comes just a few weeks after the startup signed a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/spacex-inks-compute-deal-with-reflection-ai-an-open-source-ai-lab/">similar deal to access SpaceX’s</a> computing resources, and mirrors several partnerships by AI firms as they race to secure compute for training and deploying their models.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Along with its increasingly capable Chinese counterparts, Reflection is one of several open-weight AI model developers that have received ample attention lately as debate rages over the value of top-shelf, closed-source AI models — especially with <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/satya-nadella-has-issued-a-shocking-warning-to-companies-using-ai/">data retention concerns</a> surging up, as well as government intervention. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Just last month, the Trump administration pressured <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/trump-drops-restrictions-on-anthropics-mythos-and-fable-models/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Anthropic</a> and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/openai-limits-gpt-5-6-rollout-after-government-request-says-restrictions-shouldnt-be-the-norm/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">OpenAI</a> to restrict their most powerful new models, raising concerns that access to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/world-leaders-want-american-ai-they-just-dont-want-america-to-be-able-to-turn-it-off/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AI models could be taken away overnight</a>. That, plus the release of more capable open models from China, has led to an increase in mainstream interest in open source AI.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Reflection, currently valued at $8 billion, was founded in 2024 by two former Google DeepMind researchers. It has already raised close to $2.6 billion in funding from backers including Nvidia, Sequoia Capital, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Shortly after securing a <a href="https://nebius.com/newsroom/nvidia-and-nebius-partner-to-scale-full-stack-ai-cloud" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">$2 billion investment from Nvidia</a>, Nebius signed a five-year infrastructure deal <a href="https://nebius.com/newsroom/nebius-signs-new-ai-infrastructure-agreement-with-meta" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">with Meta</a> worth up to $27 billion. Last year, Nebius signed a multi-year deal with Microsoft worth up to $19.4 billion.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">TechCrunch has reached out to Reflection and Nebius for more information.</p>
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