CoreWeave turns to customer prepayments and shorter contracts to fund AI growth
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-11-12
Per its Q3 earnings, CoreWeave is increasingly asking customers to pay upfront, borrowing against specific contracts, and even taking short-term deals that could mean higher prices, as it scrambles to fund AI infrastructure growth (TechCrunch).
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