# Nebius backs Europe’s AI builders with $10M in compute, capital, and community programs

Date: 19 Oct 2026
Released by: Nebius

## MediaRelease.co Summary

Nebius is expanding its AI Builder Program into Europe with a $10 million commitment covering compute grants, founder funding links and community events. Grants target European open-source work such as open-weight models, coding agents, inference tooling and evaluation. Accel and other European venture firms will connect founders with investors, while Nebius and NVIDIA will run hackathons and demo days with AI Tinkerers, {Tech: Europe} and the European Student Robotics Association.

## Original release

Following last month’s global launch, we’re expanding support for AI builders across Europe with more compute grants, founder funding opportunities, and hands-on community programs that bring developers together to build, experiment, and share their work. Europe produces about a fifth of the world’s AI research, and its builders have created some of the most widely used open models and tools. As a European-headquartered company, we’re committing to supporting the continent’s AI future to the tune of $10M, while bringing together European investors and local builder communities to help more projects take root and grow here. Compute to build We will provide compute grants for projects advancing the open-source frontier through research and developer tooling. We’re looking for work created in Europe that helps other builders own their intelligence and makes the open stack stronger for everyone. Projects could include: - Open models and open-weight research - Harnesses, coding agents, and agent runtimes - Inference, serving, and infrastructure tooling - Post-training, reinforcement learning, evaluation, and data tooling Capital to grow Through Accel and a broader network of European VC firms, the program will connect teams building on open source with potential investors, helping founders explore funding opportunities as they turn their projects into companies. Matt Weigand, Partner at Accel, comments, “We are glad to join the Nebius AI Builder Program and NVIDIA in supporting European AI. Doing so builds on our belief that open source plays a critical role in the AI ecosystem. The Nebius AI Builder Program also presents us with the opportunity to increase our portfolio of European founders building from first project to scale-up. This year, Accel has invested in several founders building global open-source-rooted developer and AI infrastructure companies, and we look forward to discovering and investing in the best of European open-source AI.” Communities to build with Nebius and NVIDIA will collaborate on hackathons and demo days with communities such as AI Tinkerers, {Tech: Europe} and ESRA (European Student Robotics Association). These are places where builders meet, explore ideas, and start building their projects. Joe Heitzeberg, Founder, AI Tinkerers, explains: “Europe’s AI ecosystem is full of builders turning new capabilities into working systems. In the agentic economy, those builders have what we call a ‘10,000x vote’: their choices of models, tools, and infrastructure carry through the agents they deploy and the work others build on. At AI Tinkerers, we see that influence grow when builders share code, demos, and lessons with one another. We’re excited to partner with Nebius to put more resources behind Europe’s builder communities and help their breakthroughs reach the world.” Building on momentum We launched the Nebius AI Builder Program in September to give more builders the resources, freedom, and open ecosystem to turn their ideas into working AI systems. “Developers across Europe are building open models and tools that people around the world use. We want more of those projects to grow into lasting companies here in Europe,” says Waqas Makhdum, VP of Developer Relations and Community at Nebius. “That means giving builders access to compute, helping them scale their projects, and supporting local communities where they can meet collaborators and get their ideas working.” Within weeks, thousands applied to join, and the Nebius × NVIDIA Global AI Hackathon already has more than 24,000 participants. Through Builders & Brews, we also brought build days to 20 cities worldwide, with speakers from companies including n8n, Lovable, Nous Research, Replit, and LangChain. If you’re building AI in Europe, we’d love to see what you’re working on. Join us and take your project further. Source: https://nebius.com/blog/posts/ai-builder-program-in-europe

## Key details

- Issued by: Nebius
- Published: 19 Oct 2026
- Publisher country: United States
- Topics: AI

Original source: https://nebius.com/blog/posts/ai-builder-program-in-europe
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