Nscale to acquire Romanian co-founded AI startup Anyscale in reportedly USD 1.65 billion deal

31 July 2026 Cloud infrastructure provider Nscale will acquire AI software startup Anyscale, which has Romanian-born university professor Ion Stoica among its co-founders, in a transaction worth roughly USD 1.65 billion, according to a Bloomberg News source. Ion Stoica is a co-founder of Anyscale, together with Robert Nishihara (chief executive officer) and Philipp Moritz (chief technology officer), who were his PhD students at RISELab within the University of California, Berkeley. San Francisco-based Anyscale provides software for organizing and managing complex AI workloads so that they can run smoothly across multiple computers simultaneously. Nscale said it expects to attract more customers by offering Anyscale’s software. Anyscale will continue to operate under its own brand and serve