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Brandon McBee

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Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

I think that characterization is absolutely correct.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

If you just take general commodity theory, and I traded natural gas, electricity, agriculture products for over a decade, it suggests that it should become that at some point.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

But what is the reality today?

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

The reality is this stuff isn't getting easier to operate.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

We've moved from these relatively simple 42U air-cooled

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

racks of Hopper to these immensely complex Blackwell deployments moving into Vera Rubin following that, like it's not getting easier.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

to build, operate, provision, deliver these GPUs.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

It's getting more difficult.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And I think until it starts becoming easier, you don't really have a path to commoditization.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

You will have to continue to prioritize working with the world-class and world-leading operators of infrastructure.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

That's where we sit.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

You know, I think it's the scale difference right there.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Finding ones or tens of GPUs, I think that's way more accessible out there.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Our clients are focused on the

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

hundreds of thousands of GPS.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Not yet.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

I'm sure you'll get there.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Yes.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And that's where...

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

it kind of decommoditizes itself with scale as well, right?