Nebius eyes Singapore as hub for expansion

Nebius will be looking to expand its AI infrastructure operations into the region, with Singapore identified as a potential regional hub.

As the preferred cloud service provider in the NVIDIA Partner Network, Nebius offers high-end infrastructure optimized for AI training and inference. The Amsterdam headquarter tech company is now looking to expand its presence in the Asia Pacific region.

In a conversation with CRN Asia at GITEX Asia 2025, Ranvish Vir, Director of Growth for APAC at Nebius shared that Nebius will be expanding its AI infrastructure operations into Southeast Asia, with Singapore identified as a potential regional hub.

“At this present time, we are just doing some market research, as well as looking into what kind of sales activities we do here. And based on this, we're going to decide very soon what kind of investments we'll make here in the future. But right now, it's a very promising market and we are looking into that perspective,” said Vir.

Known for its support initiatives in engaging startups, Nebius is also currently enabling five startups in the region to develop and showcase their AI innovations to the region. The move into Singapore also enables Nebius to expand its capabilities in the region, not only in supporting the increasing number of AI startups but also forging partnerships with governments and research institutions.

“We have a few startups who we are already sponsoring. Some of them are from Singapore itself are some are from India. We are not like in the starting stages of exploration, we already did a lot of discovery and so on. So now we are into, what is the next phase? The enterprise phase is coming in, how are we going to look into that? So that's the main role we're looking at,” explained Vir.

Vir also pointed out that while there are a lot of conversations on ROI with it comes to AI, the main challenge is actually talent.

“If you look at most of the talented people, they are moving to the US or they are from China. So, we are looking into all these aspects and that's where we want to change. We want to bring in ecosystem development where we are trying to work with other startup ecosystems to see how we can develop this in the future. And being a part of this AI 100 startup right now is again to bring that visibility message that we are not here just trying to sell you compute. We are here to try to see how we can develop the ecosystem here,” said Vir.

As Nebius looks to expand its presence in the region, Vir also mentioned that one of their key differentiators is how the product is built.

“It’s all ground up. We have our own hardware and software stack, all made ground up, making it very agile and also cost effective. It's about how we have developed our product, the platform, as well as the hardware stack and data centers. That makes us able to compete in the market much more aggressively compared to a lot of our competitors. Having said that, I don't think in today's AI world we are competitors. We are actually complementary to each other. We talk to everyone in this region. And that's how the world views at this point of time,” added Vir.

As an elite AI cloud provider, Nebius builds some of the world’s most highly performant infrastructure to power AI innovation. Recognizing the increasing demand for ultra-fast, scalable AI infrastructure, Nebius sought out a best-in-class data intelligence platform to empower enterprises in training, inferencing, and real-time AI applications.

Recently, Nebius announced that it has partner DDN to deliver unprecedented performance, scalability, and efficiency for enterprise AI workloads. By integrating DDN Infinia and EXAScaler into its AI cloud, Nebius is setting a new industry benchmark—offering enterprises an end-to-end, high-performance solution tailored to the demands of next-generation AI.