Revolut CEO buys €350M superyacht after finding owner via ChatGPT

Nikolay Storonsky, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Revolut, bought a €350 million superyacht in January 2026. The yacht is called Nixie, it stretches 102 meters, and it has a 25-foot glass-bottomed infinity pool and a cryotherapy chamber. The detail that will follow Storonsky to every tech conference for the next decade, though, is this: his team found the seller using ChatGPT. That revelation came out in London’s High Court, where luxury yacht broker Cecil Wright & Partners Ltd. is suing Storonsky for what it claims is a €17.5 million commission it is owed for facilitating the deal. The case became public in early August 2026, with the ChatGPT angle surfacing in court filings on September 16. How a €404M yacht deal ends up in court Cecil Wright & Partners was first brought into the picture in October 2024, when the firm introduced Nixie to Storonsky’s family office. So far, standard luxury asset brokerage. Then the ownership history got complicated. Nixie was originally commissioned by Patrick Dovigi, a Canadian businessman and former NHL player. Dovigi sold it to a Brazilian buyer, who was subsequently arrested for fraud. That legal turbulence pushed the yacht back ...