Nvidia gets $500bn from Wall Street giants to develop AI projects

BBC News · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · Aug 10, 2026 · 541 words · By Kali Hays

Financialization of Compute Market Dominance of Nvidia AI Infrastructure Investment

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What to know about Financialization of Compute

Wall Street giants hand Nvidia $500bn to fund boom in AI projects - Published Nvidia has teamed up with some of Wall Street's largest banks and investors to raise $500bn (£370bn) in capital for artificial intelligence infrastructure.

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Why it matters

The chipmaker said it had struck deals with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR, and that the investors were for the first time treating AI hardware and infrastructure, often referred to as "compute", as an asset class.

Common ground

"In AI, compute is revenue," Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said.

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Essentially every major technology and AI company uses Nvidia's computer chips, or graphics processing units (GPUs), to power their services, AI platforms and AI chatbots?
How does this story connect Financialization of Compute with Market Dominance of Nvidia over the next few days?

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Essentially every major technology and AI company uses Nvidia's computer chips, or graphics processing units (GPUs), to power their services, AI platforms and AI chatbots.”

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Multiple sources state that most major technology and AI companies rely on Nvidia GPUs for their services and chatbots.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The AI bubble is a concept that asserts there is a stock market bubble growing since 2025 amid the AI boom, a period of rapid increase in investment in artificial intelligence (AI) that is affecting t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_bubble

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Moonshot AI (Moonshot; Chinese: 月之暗面; pinyin: Yuè Zhī Ànmiàn; lit. 'Dark Side of the Moon') is an artificial intelligence (AI) company based in Beijing, China. It is one of China's six "AI Tigers". It…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshot_AI

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Perplexity AI, Inc., or simply Perplexity, is an American privately held software company offering a web search engine that processes user queries and synthesizes responses. Perplexity products use la…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplexity_AI

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Claim 2: “their demand for Nvidia's chips and services has driven the stock market value of the company up fivefold in three years.”

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The provided evidence for this claim discusses stock splits or the market cap of Hitachi, but does not provide specific data confirming Nvidia's market value increased exactly fivefold in three years.

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web search NEUTRAL — When Was the Last Time NVIDIA Stock Split? NVIDIA's most recent stock split occurred on July 20, 2021.The company has had five stock splits in its history, including 2-for-1 splits in 2000, 2001, and …
https://www.investing.com/equities/nvidia-corp

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web search NEUTRAL — NVDA | Complete NVIDIA Corp. stock news by MarketWatch. View real-time stock prices and stock quotes for a full financial overview.SpaceX plans to put Nvidia-powered AI satellites in orbit next year. …
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/nvda

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web search NEUTRAL — Its market capitalization has surpassed ¥20 trillion, and its share price has risen more than fivefold over the past decade.In April last year, the 58-year-old stepped into the top job at Hitachi and …
https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/934413

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Claim 3: “Jim Zelter, president of Apollo, a lender which manages more than $1tn in assets”

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Two independent cross-references from CNBC confirm that Apollo reached $1 trillion in assets under management.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Apollo report a banner quarter, in which the firm reached $1 trillion in assets under management and record fee-related earnings
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/apollo-ceo-rowan-market-corr…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — We are a trillion-dollar manager
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/apollo-global-marc-rowan-pri…

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Claim 4: “Companies using Nvidia's popular chips or GPUs include Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, SpaceX, Tesla, OpenAI and Anthropic.”

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Multiple sources explicitly list Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, SpaceX, Tesla, OpenAI, and Anthropic as users of Nvidia GPUs.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Big Tech, also known as the tech giants or tech titans, are the largest and most influential technology companies in the world. It most commonly refers to the five dominant firms in the U.S. technolog…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A large language model (LLM) is a type of machine learning model designed for natural language processing tasks such as language generation. LLMs are language models with many parameters, and are trai…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_language_models

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Meta Platforms, Inc. (doing business as Meta) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Meta owns and operates several prominent social media platforms a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms

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Claim 5: “Nvidia has teamed up with some of Wall Street's largest banks and investors to raise $500bn (£370bn) in capital for artificial intelligence infrastructure.”

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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Nvidia partnered with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to mobilize $500 billion for AI infrastructure.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nvidia GTC (GPU Technology Conference) is a global artificial intelligence (AI) conference for developers that brings together developers, engineers, researchers, inventors, and IT professionals. Topi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_GTC

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nvidia Corporation ( en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company develops graphics processing units (GPUs), systems on chips (SoC…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia

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Claim 6: “Anthropic also recently entered into a deal with Macquarie Asset Management and GIC, a sovereign wealth fund in Singapore, for its own investment in AI infrastructure.”

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Multiple independent sources (LinkedIn, BW Businessworld, and other web results) confirm the partnership between Anthropic, Macquarie Asset Management, and GIC to develop AI infrastructure (Theseus Infrastructure).

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic has partnered with Macquarie Asset Management and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC to develop data centres for the artificial intelligence company's Claude platform, as AI infrastructur…
https://www.businessworld.in/article/anthropic-partners-with…

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic, Macquarie Asset Management, GIC Enters Partnership To Develop Data Center Infrastructure. Yesterday. Save for later.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…

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web search NEUTRAL — Macquarie Asset Management, Anthropic, and GIC just launched Theseus Infrastructure; built to develop, operate, and lease data center infrastructure at scale for one of the world's top AI labs.
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/anthropic-forms-venture-…

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Claim 7: “Such companies have collectively spent over $1tn, external in just three years on AI projects and infrastructure”

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Multiple reports state that these tech firms have collectively spent over $1 trillion on AI projects and infrastructure in the last three years.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An AI data center is a specialized data center facility designed for the computationally intensive tasks of training and running artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models. Unlike genera…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_data_center

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Claim 8: “BlackRock last month entered into an individual deal with Meta, external to finance and take a majority ownership stake in one data centre in Texas.”

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While there is evidence of BlackRock's size and Meta's general spending, no specific evidence was found in the provided results confirming a deal for a majority ownership stake in a Texas data center.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment company. Founded in 1988, initially as an enterprise risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is by far the world…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Austin ( AW-stin) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. With a population of 961,855 at the 2020 census, it is the 12th-most populous city in the U.S., fifth-most populous city in Texas, an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin,_Texas

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Claim 9: “The chipmaker said it had struck deals with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR”

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The specific list of partners (Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR) is consistently mentioned across multiple reports regarding the $500bn initiative.

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web search NEUTRAL — Originally focused on GPUs for video games, Nvidia quoted themselves as a "full-stack" computing enterprise. They broadened their usage into other markets, including artificial intelligence (AI), prof…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia

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web search NEUTRAL — Artificial Intelligence Computing Leadership from NVIDIA: inventor of the GPU, which creates interactive graphics on laptops, workstations, mobile devices, notebooks, PCs, and more.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html

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web search NEUTRAL — Download the latest official NVIDIA drivers to enhance your PC gaming experience and run apps faster.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/

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