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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the AI chip supplier has made "a multi-billion-dollar prepayment" that was not disclosed when it announced an equity investment earlier this week in Corning.
Nvidia stocks were down on Friday. Nvidia share price fell 0.24 per cent in the pre-market trading. Nvidia has paid several billion dollars to help fund new factories for glassmaker Corning in addition to taking an equity stake of up to $3.2 billion disclosed earlier this week, the CEOs of the two companies confirmed on Thursday.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the AI chip supplier has made "a multi-billion-dollar prepayment" that was not disclosed when it announced an equity investment earlier this week in Corning, whose glass is used in the fiber-optic cables that connect computers in massive data centers. He spoke on CNBC in a joint interview with Corning CEO Wendell Weeks.
"It's going to create thousands of jobs," Huang said. "He's going to build brand new factories" that will increase U.S. production capacity by "a factor of 10."
Later in the interview, Weeks confirmed the prepayment, without disclosing the sum, and said it was separate from the equity investment.
"He's going to be helping invest in these great factories in the U.S., and then, as well as that, he's got an option to build about a $3 billion position in our equity," Weeks told CNBC's Jim Cramer.
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CoreWeave Inc raised the lower end of its annual capital expenditure forecast on Thursday, citing a rise in the prices of components, sending the cloud infrastructure technology's shares down more than 9 per cent in extended trading.
Demand for services from the so-called neoclouds, such as CoreWeave and Nebius, has skyrocketed as tech companies seek the hardware and cloud capacity needed for AI technologies.
CoreWeave lifted the lower end of its 2026 capital expenditure to $31 billion from $30 billion while keeping the upper range unchanged at $35 billion.
Customers are committing to long-term data center investments as technology companies race toward artificial general intelligence, pushing up demand for advanced memory and storage and creating a supply crunch that is driving up prices.
Just in the last month, CoreWeave, known for its close relationship with AI chip bellwether Nvidia, struck an expanded $21 billion deal for additional cloud computing capacity with Meta, a $6 billion deal with trading firm Jane Street and a third one with Anthropic.
CoreWeave added more than 400 megawatts of contracted power in the first quarter, bringing its total contracted power to more than 3.5 gigawatts, CEO Michael Intrator said on a post-earnings call with analysts.
The company reported total revenue of $2.08 billion for the first quarter, compared with analysts' average estimate of $1.97 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.
Its operating expenses more than doubled to $2.22 billion in the quarter, a result of continuing to scale active power capacity, finance chief Nitin Agrawal said on the call.
Andrew Rocco, stock strategist at Zacks Investment Research, compared CoreWeave's strategy to Amazon's early days as an e-commerce pioneer, noting that the company is sacrificing short-term profitability in an attempt to dominate the market.
"If investors are willing to stay the course, CoreWeave positions itself to be a dominant player in the AI infrastructure industry," Rocco added.
For the second quarter, CoreWeave expects revenue in the range of $2.45 billion to $2.6 billion, below analysts' estimate of $2.69 billion. The company had a revenue backlog of $99.4 billion as of March 31, compared with $66.8 billion at the end of December.
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