As more companies experiment with AI agents that can perform tasks on their own, one technical challenge keeps arising: agents need reliable, real-time access to web information. Without that, they risk producing outdated or inaccurate answers.
Amsterdam-based Nebius has announced an agreement to acquire Tavily, a company focused on search tools designed specifically for AI agents. The deal, reportedly valued at $275M, is expected to close in the coming weeks, though financial terms were not disclosed.
Post acquisition
Nebius is upgrading its platform for vertical AI companies and enterprises by acquiring Tavily, which adds agentic search capabilities. This integration will make it easier for developers to create and manage autonomous agents by providing both high-performance reasoning and real-time web access for accurate information.
With Tavily’s technology, Nebius offers a unified solution that helps customers build autonomous agents capable of navigating the web, verifying facts, and performing complex tasks, without needing multiple vendors.
The Tavily team, including founder and CEO Rotem Weiss, will join Nebius and continue leading development of the Tavily product.
Tavily will continue operating under its current brand, serving existing customers and developing new capabilities while leveraging Nebius’s global infrastructure and engineering resources.
Rotem Weiss, founder and CEO of Tavily, says, “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. 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.”
Why agentic search matters?
AI agents differ from traditional chatbots because they are designed to take actions, verify facts, and complete complex tasks. For that to work in enterprise settings, they need access to live data and the ability to check information in real time.
Nebius said Tavily’s search infrastructure will become part of its broader AI cloud platform. The goal is to offer developers a more complete stack, from model inference to real-time web access, within a single system.
Tavily’s search layer will complement Nebius’s existing infrastructure, including its Token Factory, which handles high-performance AI inference. Together, the companies aim to combine reasoning power with real-time grounding.
Roman Chernin, co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Nebius, says, “We’re not just an infrastructure-as-a-service company — we’re building the complete platform for anyone who wants to build AI products, agents, or services. Tavily is solving a critical part of this stack with agentic search and has proven it with strong developer adoption. This acquisition brings the search layer directly into our stack, so developers can focus on their applications instead of managing multiple vendors. Our strategy is clear: provide an open platform that serves everyone from startups to the largest enterprises, giving them the tools to own their AI destiny.”
