Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee

I would like to see the numbers.

If Nvidia sells hardware for $100B with 75% cross margin, and provides $50 billion in backstop for that same hardware, it would be still be nicely profitable deal ($25B) if the backstop capacity would be a total write-off recovering $0. Reselling that capacity in some large discount below already low backstop price would increase the profits.

It's all those pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and Softbank getting into that $500 billion deal that will be hurt.

In other words: the investments that were never going to happen are not going to happen.

The Möbius strip of AI financing continues…

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What would happen to Nvidia, Anthropic, OpenAI, if tomorrow someone released an open weights model on HuggingFace that matched performance and accuracy of Opus 5 running locally on an RTX 5070? That won’t happen tomorrow, but it will likely happen someday… what’s the plan beyond “don’t be the one holding the bags?”