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Software Developer at Microsoft, Tesla/NVIDIA Commentary
CoreWeave is benefiting from favorable contracts and rising AI compute pricing, which led JPMorgan to upgrade it to Overweight. BNP Paribas Exane upgraded Nebius to Outperform with a $399 target on stronger demand and pricing power, and Nebius's 17-21% on-demand GPU price increase reads as pricing power, not a demand problem. Together they leave bears like Michael Burry badly positioned. x.comÂ
CoreWeave's falling financing costs make debt fears look overdone. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says its cost of capital is falling and strength rising, so Nvidia need not backstop it. CoreWeave is superior to Nebius: Oguz Erkan says its rates are falling as deployed capacity earns more, while Nebius's rise as it scales. Dan at DivesTech expects upcoming hyperscaler earnings to reinforce capex growth and says CoreWeave fears are overdone. x.com x.com x.comÂ
Jensen Huang's assessment of CoreWeave's improving strength and falling cost of capital supports the view it will be a monster one day. He says Nvidia does not need to backstop CoreWeave; his assessment carries more weight here than retail opinion. x.comÂ
CoreWeave, Nebius, Oracle and IREN cannot count on Nvidia to absorb their debt risk because its AI funding creates no obligation to rescue them. If the AI trade unwinds and they become desperate for cash, their assets could become acquisition targets at a fraction of peak valuations; Nvidia might acquire them cheaply instead of bailing them out. x.com x.comÂ
CoreWeave may have a downside backstop because Nvidia needs a competing neocloud ecosystem on its stack as hyperscalers and leading frontier labs shift spending toward custom ASICs. The personal bet is that Nvidia would step in if CoreWeave gets into trouble. Bernstein thinks intervention in a true downside would raise the floor, though not necessarily re-energize the stock. x.comÂ
CoreWeave looks positioned to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of years of demand for GPU computing at scale. It should be one of the most important players in the AI infrastructure buildout, with Jensen Huang and Nvidia deeply tied to it. At $50 a share, its debt load is not a concern; the stock could look like one of the best buying opportunities by decade-end. x.com x.comÂ
If Jensen and Nvidia's help is the only way CoreWeave can survive, it has no future at all. Loss-making companies can be propped up in a booming economy with easy financing, but once that financing dries up, the dominoes start to fall. This concern extends beyond CoreWeave. x.comÂ
Nebius has so much growth ahead as an early-stage company that Jensen Huang's public praise matters despite bleak share-price action. At GTC Berlin 2026, Nvidia's CEO said Nebius is doing 'incredibly well,' an exceptional, S-tier assessment given his high bar. DVB found no similar mention of CoreWeave or other familiar neoclouds. x.comÂ
Hyperscaler borrowing could raise Nebius and CoreWeave's financing costs as investors favor safer debt. Microsoft reportedly plans to borrow. Nebius has prepayments and cheaper funding; CoreWeave has more debt. Nebius is strongly preferred if credit tightens. If rates fall and CoreWeave turns its $104B backlog into revenue, EBITDA and cash flow, it could have significantly more upside. Google expects more third-party compute use in Q4; Microsoft cites delayed deliveries. x.com x.com x.comÂ
CoreWeave looks doomed unless Nvidia steps in, which seems unlikely; Nvidia would more likely hire away its engineers. The warning follows reports from rdd147 that CoreWeave bonds were being dumped across institutions at roughly 14-15% yields, raising concerns about its ability to make payments. x.comÂ
Nebius is a better option than CoreWeave going forward because its balance sheet is stronger. x.comÂ