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Brandon McBee

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How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And there's no question of what is gold and not gold, et cetera.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Compute really isn't, right?

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And especially GPU compute.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

GPU compute today is not...

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And I think that this is well understood by our client base, by our suppliers, by third-party consultants like CineAnalysis.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And it's this idea that an H100 deployed in one cloud doesn't have the same performance of an H100 deployed in another cloud.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And the metrics that people use are things like good put or model flop utilization, MFUs.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And there are these measurements of how much more performant is the exact same GPU, by the way, versus another GPU deployed in another facility.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And so in order for something to be commoditized, it has to be fungible.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Right.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Otherwise, there's just too much murkiness and there isn't like an exact data point in there.

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How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

It could be in some part configuration, right?

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

We build everything to DGX reference spec, which is the most...

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

outlined by nvidia it's the most performant way to build operate and deliver okay gpus but but the rest of it honestly is just how you operate the the gpus and that is the core weave software stack that is how do you keep these gpus online right like what happens if a gpu fails can you predict if a gpu is about to fail and swap in other infrastructure so that the client doesn't

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How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

have downtime on that component and there's there's an immense suite of software solutions that and infrastructure management solutions that we have built to have the best good put to have the best mfus in the industry and that's none of that is is off the shelf right and so

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

I wouldn't say it comes down to the strict components.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

That's kind of like a bare minimum starting point, right?

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How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Like you have to start in DJX reference spec, but where's differentiation come from there?

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

I mean, that's the core product you're describing right there.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Yes.