This week, OpenAI inked a five-year, $11.9 billion take care of CoreWeave, the GPU-heavy cloud supplier, securing its personal AI computing pipeline β and a $350 million fairness stake within the firm.
With CoreWeaveβs pending IPO and deep ties to Microsoft, OpenAIβs deal marks a big shift within the AI cloud wars. Right this moment, on Trendsterβs Fairness podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff, Anthony Ha, and Rebecca Bellan are diving into whether or not or not the deal is an influence transfer in opposition to Microsoft or simply an inevitable step in OpenAIβs bid for extra compute, key offers of the week, and what you missed at South by Southwest 2025.Β
Take heed to the complete episode to listen to about:
- What Kirsten and Rebecca are seeing on the bottom in Austin, and which founders are making strikes
- Whoβs feeling the βvibe shiftβ main as much as Y Combinatorβs newest Demo Day, and why founders are elevating much less cash
- Scopelyβs $3.5 billion bid for PokΓ©mon GO maker Niantic
Fairness shall be again subsequent week, so keep tuned!
Fairness is Trendsterβs flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts each Wednesday and Friday.Β
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