Overview
- Nscale and Anyscale announced an acquisition agreement that will transfer Anyscale's roughly 200 employees into Nscale while preserving the Anyscale brand and customer relationships.
- Bloomberg reported the purchase price at about $1.65 billion but Nscale has not confirmed financial terms.
- Anyscale supplies orchestration software based on the open-source Ray framework that distributes AI tasks across many machines and GPUs and reported 70% sequential revenue growth in its most recent quarter.
- The companies said the transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
- The move follows Nscale's March 2026 $2 billion Series C and the AIPCorp microgrid buy and positions Nscale to offer a vertically integrated stack that pairs orchestration software with owned compute and energy resources, which could simplify operations for large AI customers and change competition for GPU-based cloud services.