• sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    18 hours ago

    Three of the founders of AI hosting company CoreWeave — Brannin McBee, Michael Intrator, and Brian Venturo — just announced yet another planned sale of CoreWeave stock, totalling over a billion dollars’ stock sales for each since the company went public. This means that whatever happens with CoreWeave and the AI bubble … they’ve got theirs. [Bloomberg, archive]

    CoreWeave has never been a solid business. It spent the past three years piling debts on debts, because this was the AI revolution! This is the future! […]

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      2 hours ago

      I really try not to poke fun at names but those are three of the fakest-sounding names I’ve ever heard in my life

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      18 hours ago

      There are too many of these companies to remember at this point, to be fair. I keep getting things mixed up with SoftBank.

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        18 hours ago

        Exactly. Like I know/ knew the name, but even in David’s article, it acknowledges they did a hard pivot, could even call it a few hard pivots since they’re inception.

        You can’t blame people for not keeping track about what each and every random AI slop start up is about.

        • hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world
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          3 hours ago

          They were the ones buying Nvidia chips using debt. The debt has gotten more expensive, and the demand for Nvidia chips has remained constant (which admittedly is high).