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Brandon McBee

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Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

So what I'm highlighting, I want to correct a number I said earlier.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Our financial service clients, and this is direct to those financial services, they're approaching $10 billion in backlog.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

So this would be a good example of this, and that's something we made recently, is with Jane Street.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

That's not Jane Street coming through OpenAI or Anthropic to get to us.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

That is Jane Street coming directly to us and using our platform.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

It's training.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

At the end of the day, we don't know what exact workloads these entities are running, especially for entities like Jane Street.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

I would imagine that's highly secretive.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Yeah.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

But the point I would say is more that

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

This is not them coming through an AI lab to us.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

They are interfacing with and managing the infrastructure directly on our platform.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And that's a really important distinction as we grow this diversified client base.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And again, I think that we've just done a wonderful job of executing on that over the past year.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

I don't think that we're exposed to that decision-making with the AI labs as counterparties to us.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

The observation I would make in a behavior change for the AI labs is they want access to more infrastructure for longer duration, right?

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And I'll qualify that a little bit, which is

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Two years ago, we were signing three-year committed contracts.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

The type of contracts we sign are basically like take-or-pay contracts, which is the best way to finance the infrastructure that we are building for our clients.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Last year, it was four-year contracts.