For CoreWeave, the deal may supplement lost income from the contracts Microsoft cancelled.
CoreWeave announced on March 11 that it had struck a five-year deal worth up to $11.9 billion with OpenAI, the nonprofit research and development company that created ChatGPT. Through the deal, OpenAI will become an investor in CoreWeave through the issuance of $350 million of stock, while CoreWeave will deliver AI infrastructure.
The deal comes ahead of the anticipated CoreWeave initial public offering (IPO). According to its offering filing, the company, founded in 2017 in Livingston, New Jersey, reported $1.9 billion in revenue with a net loss of $863 million in 2024. CoreWeave provides cloud-based GPU infrastructure to AI developers.
The new deal may provide a boost to CoreWeave, as roughly two-thirds of the company’s revenue came from Microsoft, which had planned to spend $10 billion on CoreWeave by 2030. According to a report from the Financial Times, Microsoft has canceled some contracts with the AI company due to missed deadlines, though CoreWeave has denied this.
