Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a cornerstone of the artificial intelligence (AI) trade since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT in late 2022. Shares have advanced more than 1,300% since January 2023, and most Wall Street analysts still view the stock as undervalued.
Nvidia recently announced a strategic partnership with six of the world’s largest financial institutions to secure more than $500 billion in financing for potential customers. That capital will unlock demand by helping smaller enterprises and AI labs purchase Nvidia systems.
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Nvidia taps a new $500 billion opportunity with a novel financing platform
Nvidia recently partnered with six financial institutions — Apollo Global, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR — to create new financing platforms designed to mobilize more than $500 billion in capital for artificial intelligence infrastructure. Nvidia itself may backstop up to $125 billion, or 25% of deals.
Nvidia hardware generally comes with a hefty price tag, which can make it prohibitively expensive for smaller enterprises and AI labs. These financing platforms aim to remove that obstacle by providing prospective customers with an alternative path to purchasing AI infrastructure. In doing so, they will extend Nvidia’s addressable market.
“We are helping create a new class of productive, investable infrastructure: AI factories,” CEO Jensen Huang commented in the press release. “These financing platforms will help customers access scarce compute at scale and build the AI factories that will power every industry and country in the age of AI.”
The market may be underestimating the useful life of Nvidia chips
Nvidia systems are the industry standard in artificial intelligence infrastructure. With a full-stack approach that spans integrated hardware and software, the company can optimize data centers for performance and power efficiency in ways that most competitors cannot.
Jensen Huang says Nvidia systems cost less per token, generate more revenue, and have longer lifespans than alternative solutions. Indeed, there is evidence that Nvidia systems are proving much more durable than the market initially assumed. Neocloud CoreWeave recently signed a contract to rent Nvidia A100 GPUs (introduced in 2020) through 2029.
