Investing.com -- Nebius Group (NASDAQ: NBIS) announced Thursday that it has brought up and is validating its first full NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack at its Finland data center, claiming a place among the earliest AI cloud providers to reach that milestone. The announcement arrives just two days after NVIDIA disclosed a 9.3% passive stake in Nebius, sending the stock notably higher. "After bring-up and validation comes software polishing and production-grade testing, so when Vera Rubin reaches our customers, it delivers its full potential from day one." NVIDIA confirmed recently that Vera Rubin NVL72 entered full production in June 2026, with racks running at CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure across more than 350 factory sites in 30 countries. For Nebius, the timing of the Vera Rubin announcement is strategically well-placed.