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Nvidia lent CoreWeave billions in GPUs for free — then wrote off the debt – December 2025

Author/Source: Justine Calma See the full link here

Takeaway

This article explains how Nvidia, a big computer chip maker, gave a lot of its powerful AI chips to a startup company called CoreWeave without charging them. Nvidia later forgave this debt, which helped CoreWeave grow quickly and buy even more chips from Nvidia.

Technical Subject Understandability

Beginner

Analogy/Comparison

Imagine a toy company giving a new toy store a huge supply of its most popular new toys for free to help the store get started. When the toy store becomes very successful and needs even more toys, it buys them all from the same original toy company.

Why It Matters

This shows how important powerful computer chips are for developing AI and how companies are making big moves to control who gets these chips. For example, CoreWeave used these free chips to quickly build many data centers, which are like big computer rooms, filled with Nvidia’s H100 chips that are needed to run advanced AI programs.

Related Terms

GPU, AI, Cloud computing, NeoCloud. Jargon Conversion: A GPU is like the brain for AI computers. AI stands for artificial intelligence, which means smart computer programs. Cloud computing is like renting computer power over the internet. NeoCloud is a special program for lending GPUs.