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Nvidia Partners With Wall Street Giants to Raise $500 Billion
Nvidia makes special computer chips that help computers learn and think, which is called artificial intelligence, or AI.
To work well, AI needs giant buildings full of powerful computers, sometimes called AI factories.
These buildings cost an enormous amount of money to build.
Nvidia has teamed up with six big money companies to help pay for them.
Together, they want to raise more than 500 billion dollars.
Nvidia's boss, Jensen Huang, said the company could help pay up to 125 billion dollars if needed.
Lots of other big companies are also spending huge amounts of money on AI this year.
The money will help businesses, governments and cloud providers get access to powerful computers.
Some details, like exactly how much each company will give, have not been shared yet.
This is a big deal because AI is becoming more and more popular everywhere.
Nvidia announced Monday it signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to launch compute financing platforms.
The initiative aims to raise over $500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure.
CEO Jensen Huang said on X that Nvidia has the option to backstop up to $125 billion, or 25%, of potential deals.
Combined Big Tech AI spending is set to surpass $730 billion this year amid surging demand for AI computing capacity.
Financial terms, individual firm commitments and a deployment timetable were not disclosed; the Financial Times reported the news first, later confirmed by Reuters.
- Who
- Nvidia and six major financial institutions — Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR — with CEO Jensen Huang announcing the move.
- What
- Launch of compute financing platforms to raise over $500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure.
- Where
- Not specified in the articles.
- When
- Monday, when Nvidia made the announcement; no deployment timetable was disclosed.
- Why
- Surging demand for AI computing capacity and the race to build data centers, as well as a goal to broaden access to Nvidia-based infrastructure and create longer-duration, usage-linked investment opportunities.
Key facts
- Partner institutions
- Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, KKR
- Target capital
- Over $500 billion in third-party capital
- Nvidia backstop option
- Up to $125 billion (25% of potential deals)
- Agreement type
- Memorandums of understanding
- Big Tech AI spending
- Set to surpass $730 billion this year
- Purpose
- Broaden access to Nvidia-based infrastructure for frontier AI developers, enterprises, governments and cloud providers
- Undisclosed details
- Financial terms, individual firm commitments, deployment timetable
- First reported by
- Financial Times, confirmed by Reuters
Quotes
Jensen Huang
Nvidia CEO
“These financing platforms will help customers access scarce compute at scale and build the AI factories that will power every industry and country in the age of AI.”
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