Nebius (NASDAQ: NBIS) climbed 1.97% in premarket trading after the AI cloud company unveiled Nebius AI Cloud 3.6, its latest platform release targeting production AI workloads.
The centerpiece of the update is Nebius Echo, a first-look AI agent built directly into the web console that allows users to control cloud infrastructure using natural language commands.
Echo includes built-in guardrails designed to prevent unintentional actions, giving enterprise teams a safety layer when managing infrastructure through conversational inputs.
The release expands Nebius’s enterprise security offering with a new Key Management Service that supports customer-managed encryption keys, giving organizations greater control over their data protection posture.
Workload Identity Federation has also been introduced, enabling credential-free authentication and reducing the operational risk associated with managing static credentials across cloud environments.
Local SSDs on GPU servers have been added to support high-performance caching, a feature that addresses the demanding input-output requirements of large-scale AI training and inference workloads.
Storage performance has seen significant improvements, with the update delivering 30% more read bandwidth for single-threaded connections compared to previous configurations.
Metadata-heavy workloads stand to benefit most dramatically, with Nebius reporting up to 100 times more IOPS available under the new release, while validated cluster sizes now reach 100 petabytes.
The combination of higher IOPS and expanded cluster capacity positions Nebius to compete more aggressively for enterprise customers running large-scale, data-intensive AI pipelines.
Nebius also opened its Builder Program in early preview as part of the release, offering developers credits across its AI Cloud, Token Factory, and Academy platforms to accelerate adoption among builders and startups.
The premarket share gain reflects investor optimism that the technical upgrades and developer incentives will strengthen Nebius’s competitive standing in an increasingly crowded AI infrastructure market.
