LONDON, UK and SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Aug 5, 2026 – Nscale has agreed to acquire Anyscale, the company founded by the creators of Ray, the open-source framework for building and scaling distributed AI applications. The deal pairs Nscale’s GPU and data center infrastructure with Anyscale’s platform for running AI workloads.
The Anyscale platform is aimed at workloads across healthcare, e-commerce, and robotics. Applications include image and document processing, fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on proprietary data, and deploying AI agents using open-source models.
Anyscale will continue to operate under its own brand and serve its existing customers. Customers can keep running workloads on whichever infrastructure they choose. Over time, they will also have the option to run Anyscale’s software on Nscale’s AI cloud. Anyscale’s team of approximately 200 people across the United States, Europe, and India will join Nscale.
“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, CEO and founder of Nscale. “Anyscale extends that offering with managed services that AI teams use to scale any workload, completing a truly vertically integrated AI cloud platform. With this acquisition, customers get the compute and the platform to process data, train and fine-tune models, run inference, and deploy agents – all in one place.”
“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 of Anyscale. “By combining Anyscale’s platform, built on Ray – the open standard for scaling AI, with Nscale’s data centres, compute and AI cloud services – we’re creating the first full-stack AI hyperscaler: one that runs any AI workload at greater scale and lower cost, so more companies can build and own their AI.”
Goldman Sachs International served as lead financial advisor to Nscale, with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC as financial advisor. Latham & Watkins served as legal counsel to Nscale. Qatalyst Partners acted as financial advisor and Fenwick & West served as legal counsel to Anyscale.
Source: Nscale
About Anyscale
Anyscale develops software infrastructure for distributed computing and AI workloads. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in San Francisco. Its platform supports AI model training, inference, data processing and application deployment using the open-source Ray framework. Anyscale provides managed cloud services, developer tools and enterprise support for Ray-based workloads. Its software runs across cloud and on-premises computing environments. Customers include technology companies, financial institutions, research organizations and enterprises developing AI applications. The company serves teams working on machine learning, generative AI and large-scale data processing. Anyscale reports about 500 employees.
About Nscale
Nscale Ltd., founded in 2024, is a UK-based technology company specializing in AI-optimized cloud infrastructure and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions. Headquartered in London, with data centers in Glomfjord, Norway, Nscale offers a vertically integrated platform encompassing public and private cloud services, serverless inference, GPU clusters, and AI development tools. Its infrastructure is powered by renewable energy, emphasizing sustainability. Nscale serves various industries, including education, finance, government, healthcare, legal, manufacturing, software, and telecommunications, providing scalable solutions for AI model training, inference, and development. In January 2025, the company secured $155 million in Series A funding led by Sandton Capital Partners, supporting its expansion across Europe and North America.
