Nebius Group Rolls Out Echo AI Agent, Cloud Controls in Investor Update

Nebius Group NASDAQ: NBIS detailed a series of new cloud platform features during a product release event, highlighting additions across AI assistance, orchestration, cost controls, security, storage and developer programs. The company’s presentation centered on Nebius Echo, a built-in AI agent designed to help users interact with Nebius Cloud through the console or command-line interface. The operator demonstrated Echo by asking it to create a virtual machine on a single H100 GPU. Echo returned the proposed configuration for approval before creating the VM, which the operator later confirmed appeared in the console. Narek Tatevosyan, Product Director at Nebius, said Echo is intended to become more than a chatbot. He described it as an AI interface that can answer questions about documentation, quotas and tenant infrastructure, while also helping agents and users operate workloads on Nebius. “Our vision under Echo is, in general, that this is an AI that basically works as a very good trained customer architect or customer support that knows everything about you, like your tenant,” Tatevosyan said. Nebius Adds Managed SkyPilot Support The company also introduced a managed SkyPilot instance within the AI orchestration section of the console. SkyPilot is an open-source project for running AI workloads across cloud infrastructure. The operator said that, before this release, Nebius users had to deploy and manage their own SkyPilot API server. With the new managed option, Nebius hosts the control plane, allowing users to deploy an instance by selecting a name, platform and CPU preset. Tatevosyan said Nebius is aiming to support multiple ways customers run AI workloads, including SkyPilot, Slurm, Anyscale and serverless options. He said Nebius does not charge for the SkyPilot control plane and charges only for compute used on its platform. “We want customers to build AI the way they want to build,” Tatevosyan said. He added that Nebius sees SkyPilot gaining traction because it can help aggregate scarce infrastructure across clouds and data centers while offering primitives that are more accessible to AI researchers than some DevOps-focused tools. New Budgeting and Key Management Tools Target Enterprise Readiness Nebius also rolled out a Budget feature for spending alerts. Users can set a spending limit for an account, team, project, product or specific conditions over a defined period, such as monthly usage. If spending exceeds a selected threshold, Nebius sends an email notification. The operator noted that the console will not automatically stop resources when a budget threshold is exceeded. Tatevosyan said the feature had been requested by customers and is part of a broader push toward enterprise readiness. He said Nebius is building features for large organizations with multiple teams operating within secured and governed environm...