"In my years writing this newsletter I have come across few companies as rotten as CoreWeave — an "AI cloud provider" that sells GPU compute to AI companies looking to run or train their models.
CoreWeave had intended to go public last week, with an initial valuation of $35bn. While it’s hardly a recognizable name — like, say, OpenAI, or Microsoft, or Nvidia — this company is worth observing, if not for the fact that it’s arguably the first major IPO that we’ve seen from the current generative AI hype bubble, and undoubtedly the biggest. Moreover, it’s a company that deals in the infrastructure aspect of AI, where one would naturally assume is where all the money really is — putting up the servers for hyperscalers to run their hallucination-prone, unprofitable models.
You’d assume that such a company would be a thriving, healthy business. And yet, a cursory glance at its financial disclosure documents reveals a business that’s precarious at best, and, in my most uncharitable opinion, utterly rancid. If this company was in any other industry, it would be seen as such. Except, it’s one of the standard bearers of the generative AI boom, and so, it exists within its own reality distortion field.
Regardless, CoreWeave’s IPO plans appear to have been delayed, and it’s unclear when it’ll eventually make its debut on the public markets. I assume the reasons for the delay are as follows."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/core-incompetency/