CoreWeave, a fast-rising AI cloud provider backed by NVIDIA, has landed a massive $11.9 billion contract with OpenAI in a move that could significantly boost its upcoming initial public offering (IPO). The five-year deal, confirmed on Monday, will see CoreWeave provide AI infrastructure to OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.

As part of this deal, OpenAI will become an investor in CoreWeave through the issuance of $350 million of CoreWeave stock

In a grandmaster-level chess move, OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion agreement with the GPU-heavy cloud service provider CoreWeave, which

The deal will give OpenAI a stake in CoreWeave, which will issue shares worth $350 million through a private placement at the time of its IPO.

CoreWeave, an artificial intelligence startup backed by Nvidia , has signed a five-year contract worth $11.9 billion with OpenAI ahead of its hotly anticipated stock market launch.

The latest news comes amid a move toward a potential IPO for the Jersey-born company, which "remain[s] a partner-of-choice to meet the bleeding-edge needs of pioneers to unleash AI’s potential to change the world,

CoreWeave, a cloud service provider specialising in GPU-heavy workloads, has signed a $11.9bn deal to provide AI infrastructure to OpenAI. This deal is expected to bolster OpenAI's compute capacity, which is said to be crucial for training and deploying advanced AI models to its global user base.

CoreWeave's partnership with OpenAI strengthens AI computing power and boosts its IPO prospects, with Nvidia playing a key role