Vera Rubin system DeepSeek R1 configuration
Company: Nebius
The claim, verbatim
Nebius ran DeepSeek R1 on 36 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs across 9 nodes on Nebius Vera Rubin NVL72 system
Source (primary)
MLPerf® Inference v6.1 Results: NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 - Nebius (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Nebius ran DeepSeek R1 on 36 GPUs across nine nodes on a Nebius system with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 in the preview category.”
How we checked this
Checked on September 25, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The post says Nebius ran DeepSeek R1 on 36 GPUs across nine nodes, and its results table identifies them as 36 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs.
Confirmed in the source:
- Nebius ran DeepSeek R1 on the Nebius Vera Rubin NVL72 system
- The run used 36 GPUs
- The GPUs were NVIDIA Rubin GPUs
- The run spanned nine nodes
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://nebius.com/blog/posts/mlperf-inference-v6-1-results) in full (19,885 characters, retrieved September 21, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms MLPerf® Inference v6.1 Results: NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 - Nebius
Quote: “Nebius ran DeepSeek R1 on 36 GPUs across nine nodes on a Nebius system with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 in the preview category.”