Nebius Group is raising $700 million in a private placement from investors, including Nvidia, to build the infrastructure underpinning AI.

Nebius, the artificial intelligence infrastructure group that was formed from Yandex’s operations outside Russia earlier this year, has raised $700mn from investors including chipmaker Nvidia to capitalise on exploding demand for AI data centres.

Nebius — the rebranded European arm of “Russia’s Google,” Yandex — is riding the AI hype wave to build technology for technologists.

AI infrastructure firm Nebius Group on Monday said it was raising $700 million in a private placement from investors including Nvidia , Accel and some accounts managed by Orbis Investments.

Nebius Group NV, the technology company rebranded from Russian internet giant Yandex, has raised $700 million from a slate of investors including Nvidia Corp. and Accel Partners LP.

AI infrastructure player Nebius Group is raising $700 million through a private placement from a group of investors that includes Nvidia. Nebius stock jumped on the news. The Netherlands-based Nebius Group said in a news release that the funding will support additional capacity for its plan to offer cloud-based computing power for training and running AI models.