Arkady Volozh's Nebius will buy Tavily, a search engine for AI agents, for $275 million

The technology company Nebius Group, created by Arkady Volozh, has agreed to buy the Israeli startup Tavily, a software developer that allows artificial intelligence agents to search for relevant information.

As Bloomberg reported on February 10, citing a source, Nebius will pay $275 million for Tavily. As part of the deal, Tavily founder and CEO Rotem Weiss, along with the entire project team, will join Nebius.

• Nebius is the former Yandex NV, created by Arkady Volozh from several Yandex projects. The company builds the computing infrastructure needed by artificial intelligence developers and also operates several companies in the fields of autonomous cars, education and AI.
• In 2025, Nebius Groupsigned a five-year contract with Microsoft Corporation. Its cost was almost 20 billion dollars.