WSJ Alleges Nvidia Funded AI Startups to Buy Its GPUs
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The Wall Street Journal, in a report relayed by TechPowerUp, alleges that Nvidia invested in AI startups that then bought Nvidia GPUs and built data centers, with the aim of sustaining the perception of high demand and absorbing an oversupply of chips from TSMC. The report also says that the small cloud providers Nvidia backed could not afford its GPUs, making them a potential financial dead end. According to the report, at an August meeting CFO and acting CEO Colette Kress pushed to scale back circular financing and Nvidia's $250 billion deal with OpenAI, and Jensen Huang called her a "deer in the headlights." These are allegations in the Journal's report; Nvidia has not confirmed them.
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A Wall Street Journal report, relayed via TechPowerUp, alleges that NVIDIA invested in AI startups that then bought NVIDIA GPUs and built data centers, aiming to sustain the perception of high demand and absorb an oversupply of chips from TSMC. The report cites an August meeting in which CFO and acting CEO Colette Kress pushed to scale back circular financing and NVIDIA's $250 billion deal with OpenAI, and says Jensen Huang called her a "deer in the headlights." It also notes that the small cloud providers NVIDIA backed could not afford its GPUs, making them a potential financial dead end.
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