CoreWeave sees a $7 billion win from an unconventional customer. Financial firms want AI chips, too.
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A $7 billion compute deal with a financial firm says the buy side is done renting generic cloud and is locking in dedicated AI capacity as a strategic asset. If you’re in any data-rich, latency-sensitive industry, your competitors are about to look more like GPU allocators than software buyers.
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