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Nvidia Pledges $125B Backstop to Unlock $500B in AI Financing
Nvidia signed MOUs with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to raise over $500B in third-party AI infrastructure financing.
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Jensen Huang
Founder, President & CEO, NVIDIA
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Co-founder, president, and CEO of NVIDIA, whose GPUs power the vast majority of modern AI training and inference. He has steered NVIDIA into the central hardware platform of the AI era.
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