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In another chess move with Microsoft, OpenAI is pouring $12B into CoreWeave

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In a grandmaster-level chess move, OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion agreement with the GPU-heavy cloud service provider CoreWeave, according to Reuters, which cites people close to the deal.

The deal involves OpenAI receiving $350 million worth of equity in CoreWeave, the sources told Reuters. The private placement is said to be separate from CoreWeave’s planned IPO.

CoreWeave filed to become a public company last week, but it has not yet priced or scheduled its debut.

It’s a win for both companies. One reason this agreement is so eye-popping (besides the billions involved) is that before this deal, CoreWeave’s biggest customer was Microsoft. In fact, in 2024, Microsoft accounted for 62% of CoreWeave’s revenue, which grew to a stunning $1.9 billion — nearly an eightfold increase from just $228.9 million in 2023.

Backed by Nvidia, which holds a 6% stake, CoreWeave runs an AI-specific cloud service with a network of 32 data centers that operated more than 250,000 Nvidia GPUs as of the end of 2024, according to the company. Since then, CoreWeave has added more GPUs, including Nvidia’s latest product, Blackwell, which supports AI reasoning, the company said.

Such dependence on one customer is usually worrisome for IPO investors and could have added “hair” as they say, to CoreWeave’s hopes of raising $4 billion or more in its IPO. Landing OpenAI as a direct customer in a multi-billion-dollar deal should help CoreWeave appease investors.

Microsoft and OpenAI’s relationship

What makes this move equally interesting is that it’s another step in the deteriorating, frenemies relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI. 

It’s as if OpenAI CEO Sam Altman saw Microsoft’s usage of CoreWeave and said, “Hold my beer.”

Not only will OpenAI have access to the same cloud, but it will also have an ownership stake in the company that runs it.

Microsoft is, of course, a big backer of OpenAI in a deal that entitles Microsoft to collect a portion of OpenAI’s revenue. But tensions between two companies have been rising for years, as OpenAI’s fortunes have soared. OpenAI competes with Microsoft for enterprise customers and is even reportedly working on rolling out pricey AI agents. 

In January, as part of the massive Stargate AI infrastructure deal with SoftBank, Oracle, and others, Microsoft ceased being OpenAI’s sole cloud provider. OpenAI needs more compute resources. Just last week, Altman complained that OpenAI is “out of GPUs.”

For its part, Microsoft is working on its own AI “reasoning” models comparable to OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini. It’s developing a whole family of its own models called MAI that are competitive with OpenAI. It also hired Altman’s rival, Mustafa Suleyman, to lead Microsoft AI.

But CoreWeave is a surprising chess piece.

CoreWeave began its life as a crypto mining operation, founded by former hedge fund guys, it said. The three co-founders have already cashed out of $488 million worth of shares — over $150 million apiece. CoreWeave also has a stunning $7.9 billion of debt on the books.

If the IPO generates the billions of new capital they hope it will, the company says it will use at least some of that to pay down the debt.

While these founders were once literally attempting to use GPUs to mint money, they are figuratively apparently accomplishing it. 

CoreWeave and OpenAI did not respond to our request for comment.



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