Nscale acquires Anyscale to build a full-stack AI cloud
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM and CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES — Nscale, a full-stack artificial intelligence (AI) cloud platform provider, has agreed to acquire Anyscale, a distributed computing platform built on the open-source Ray framework, the companies announced.
The acquisition will add Anyscale’s approximately 200-person team across the United States, Europe, and India, and is expected to close in the second half of 2026.
Anyscale’s platform enables enterprises to scale Python and AI workloads across thousands of graphics processing units (GPUs) for data processing, model training, inference, and reinforcement learning.
Nscale integrates software and infrastructure under one platform
Unlike infrastructure providers that rent raw compute capacity, Nscale builds and owns its full technology stack, encompassing physical data centers, power, GPU clusters, and now the software layer that runs on top of them.
Anyscale’s technology enables image and document processing, large language model (LLM) fine-tuning, and AI agent deployment using open-source models across Nscale’s infrastructure.
“Most infrastructure providers just buy GPUs and rent them. Nscale is doing something unique. We build and own every layer ourselves: the power, the data centers, the compute, and the software that turns them into an AI cloud,” said Josh Payne, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Founder at Nscale.
Anyscale brings Ray’s creators and enterprise AI customers
Anyscale’s team includes the original creators of Ray, the open-source distributed computing framework widely used by enterprises to run AI workloads at scale across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
Anyscale’s customer base includes Coinbase, Bedrock Robotics, and Runway, reflecting the platform’s presence across fintech, robotics, and AI-generated media verticals.
“Companies are moving beyond simply using AI to actually building their own. Doing that well requires the software and the infrastructure it runs on to be designed together,” said Keerti Melkote, CEO at Anyscale.
The Nscale-Anyscale combination targets the growing demand for vertically integrated AI cloud infrastructure, where enterprises prefer platforms that manage compute, software, and deployment pipelines under a single provider.
Goldman Sachs International and Morgan Stanley advised Nscale on the transaction, while Qatalyst Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to Anyscale, reflecting the deal’s significance within the enterprise AI infrastructure market.
For the business process outsourcing (BPO) and managed services sector, the deal signals accelerating consolidation in AI infrastructure, as platform providers compete to control both computers and the software enterprises use to build AI agents.
As enterprises shift from using AI to building their own agents, providers offering integrated compute and software in a single platform are positioned to capture a growing share of enterprise AI spending.
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