Nebius Acquires Tavily to Bolster Agentic AI Search Capabilities

Amsterdam-based cloud computing company Nebius is acquiring agentic search provider Tavily.

The deal, announced Tuesday (Feb. 10), is designed to combine real-time search infrastructure with Nebius’s artificial intelligence (AI) cloud platform amid rapid enterprise adoption of agentic AI.

“This acquisition advances Nebius’s strategy to build a unified platform where vertical AI companies and enterprises can build, tune, and run autonomous agents,” the company said in a news release. “By adding Tavily’s agentic search to its existing AI cloud platform, Nebius is expanding the integrated software stack developers need to assemble and operate enterprise-grade agentic systems.”

By adding agentic search capabilities, Nebius customers get the architecture to build agents that can navigate the web, verify information and carry out complex real-world tasks, while developers avoid having to patch together disparate vendors, the release added.

The company did not disclose the terms of the deal, though a report by Bloomberg News—citing a source familiar with the matter—put the price tag at $275 million.

As part of the acquisition, Tavily’s team, including Founder and CEO Rotem Weiss, will join Nebius and continue leading development of their product, with Tavily continuing to operate under its own brand and serving its current customers.

“Tavily is on a mission to onboard the next billion AI agents to the web. Agentic search is a multi-billion-dollar opportunity, and we believe the market is poised to grow exponentially as enterprises deploy autonomous AI systems,” Weiss said. “Joining forces with Nebius, one of the world’s premier deep-tech engineering teams, accelerates our ability to scale globally and enables us to push the boundaries of what’s possible further and faster.”

The acquisition is happening amid rapid adoption of agentic AI by enterprises, as shown by PYMNTS Intelligence research into how chief product officers (CPOs) at U.S. businesses are thinking about and using the technology.

Last August, more than half of companies, or 52%, said they were just “considering” or “exploring” agentic AI. By November, that number had fallen to 30%. In other words, a large chunk of the enterprise market “moved out of the window-shopping phase,” as PYMNTS wrote last month.

“What replaced the passive interest is hands-on implementation,” that report continued. “In November, nearly 1 in 4 CPOs reported that they were either piloting agentic AI or fully using it in production processes, up from just 3% in August. Actual usage and piloting were evenly split: Just over 1 in 8, or 12%, are testing agents out, and another 12% have already made them part of their daily operations.”