Nebius (NASDAQ: NBIS) stock surged more than 4% in pre-market trading on Tuesday, June 9, as the company announced a new Physical AI Living Lab project with Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA).
According to the official press release, the project is a six-month program meant to prop up British and European robotics startups by introducing them to Nvidia’s physical AI development tools and Nebius’s own AI cloud infrastructure.
At press time, Nebius stock was sitting at $227.3 in pre-market, with the last closing price at $218. While the past week has been tough for the company – it’s down nearly 20% on the five-day chart – its overall performance this year has been more than solid, as it’s up 142% year-to-date.
Nebius and Nvidia introduce Physical AI Living Lab
Specifically, participants in the Physical AI Living Lab program will be able to leverage Nvidia’s Cosmos, Isaac, and OSMO platforms for simulation, synthetic data generation, and AI model development.
The Living Lab is powered by Nvidia’s latest Blackwell GPUs. This, the partners promise, will give AI startups access to high-performance computing capabilities needed for large-scale robotics training workloads.
“Most robotics teams can build a strong model — the bottleneck is getting the simulation, synthetic data, and compute in place to take it further. The Living Lab is built around that problem: founders get the full NVIDIA physical AI stack on Nebius AI Cloud and direct time with our engineers, so they spend time building robots, not assembling infrastructure,” said Evan Helda, Head of Physical AI at Nebius.
The first cohort of startups is scheduled to begin the program in September 2026. In the future, the two partners intend to extend the Physical AI Living Lab to other regions and bring in further cohorts as the program grows.
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