AI cloud shakeout looms, with Nvidia most exposed

Industry executives expect only 7–10 of hundreds of AI cloud providers to survive. CoreWeave lost about a quarter of its market value, and Microsoft pulled a deal to buy 23,000 Nvidia chips from Nscale. With non-hyperscaler customers at 45% of Nvidia's data center revenue, the company is heavily exposed.

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