CoreWeave, the Original Neocloud, Wants People to Stop Calling It That
THE SO WHAT
CoreWeave pushing back on the ‘neocloud’ label is about moving from niche GPU lessor to perceived full-stack cloud peer. For buyers, the semantics matter less than the contracts — treat these providers as strategic infra partners and negotiate like you would with a hyperscaler on SLAs, roadmap visibility, and lock-in.
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