Anyscale, another company co-founded by Romanian Ion Stoica, sold for $1.65 billion
Summary
Nscale has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Anyscale for $1.65 billion, pending regulatory approvals and standard closing conditions expected in the second half of 2026. Anyscale was founded in 2019 by Ion Stoica, Robert Nishihara, and Philipp Moritz, and it built a platform around Ray for distributed AI and large-scale workload management. The company shifted from general compute-heavy projects toward AI model training, inference, data curation, and reinforcement learning after the launch of GPT-3. Nscale says the deal expands its reach beyond compute infrastructure and data centers into the software layer for managing and scaling AI workloads. Anyscale will keep serving customers under its own brand, while its roughly 200 employees are set to join Nscale.
