Nscale Is Buying Anyscale for a Reported $1.65B, Pulling Ray's Commercial Layer Into a Power-Owning Cloud

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Nscale — an AI cloud operator that builds its own data centers and generates its own power — announced on July 30 it will acquire Anyscale, the company behind the Ray distributed-computing framework, with Bloomberg pegging the deal at about $1.65B (terms undisclosed officially). All ~200 Anyscale staff across the US, Europe and India move over, the brand keeps operating, and Nscale says it will join the PyTorch Foundation, where Ray has been governed since October 2025. This is vertical integration running the opposite direction from the usual SaaS story: the infrastructure owner is buying the developer-facing software layer rather than a software company buying compute.