Dropbox has agreed to buy Tigris Data, a distributed object storage platform built for AI workloads, for about $350m in cash, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions.

Alongside it, Dropbox unveiled DBX Agent Cloud, a storage and data infrastructure offering that will initially provide standalone object storage. That gives the money a destination: an infrastructure layer for AI workloads, rather than the file-sync business that has plateaued. Dropbox is buying that layer outright instead of building it.

The purchase comes weeks after job cuts tied to shifting resources toward AI products such as Dash. The two look like one bet, made first with people and now with cash. It is also a second unproven bet on top of Dash, and neither has yet shown it can offset stalled core revenue. With the close set for the fourth quarter, the deal will not show up in results for some time.

The nearer test is today. Dropbox says on its investor relations page that it will report third-quarter results after the close, with a call at 5:00 pm EST. In the second quarter it reported earnings per share of $0.75, $0.01 better than expected, on revenue of $631.5m against $626.69m expected.

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