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Nvidia lines up $500 billion in financing as CEO Jensen Huang tells CNBC his chips are ‘investable asset’

Cnbc · · 643 words · By Hugh Son
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Nvidia is attempting to turn its artificial intelligence chips into Wall Street's newest asset class, partnering with six large asset managers on a $500 billion financing push designed to treat compute infrastructure much like commercial real estate, toll…

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Nvidia is attempting to turn its artificial intelligence chips into Wall Street's newest asset class, partnering with six large asset managers on a $500 billion financing push designed to treat compute infrastructure much like commercial real estate, toll…

Why it matters

The chipmaker signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish financing platforms for Nvidia's customers, the company said Monday in a statement.

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Executives from the seven companies joined CNBC's Becky Quick in a rare, live joint interview to discuss the announcement.

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Claim 1: “Nvidia is partnering with six large asset managers on a $500 billion financing push designed to treat compute infrastructure much like commercial real estate, toll roads or other assets to borrow against.”
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The claim that Nvidia is partnering with asset managers for a $500 billion financing push to treat compute as an asset class is corroborated by multiple web search results, including a specific report titled 'Nvidia Lines Up $500 Billion in Financing With Six Asset Managers'.
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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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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 RTX Spark is an Arm-based system on chip and computing platform developed by Nvidia for Windows laptops and compact desktop computers. Announced by Nvidia and Microsoft on May 31, 2026, RTX Spa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_RTX_Spark
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Claim 2: “The effort aims to mobilize more than $500 billion in third-party capital for hyperscalers, frontier AI labs and enterprises to build out data centers and acquire Nvidia hardware”
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The goal of mobilizing over $500 billion in third-party capital for hyperscalers, AI labs, and enterprises for hardware and data centers is confirmed in the reporting on the partnership.
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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 — Blackwell is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to the Hopper and Ada Lovelace microarchitectures. Named after statistician and mathematician Davi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwell_(microarchitecture)
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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 3: “BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Blackstone President Jon Gray and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon — said in the news release Monday that compute has rapidly evolved into a critical asset class driving the next leg of global economic growth.”
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The sentiment that compute has emerged as a critical asset class is corroborated by a news report citing Apollo President Jim Zelter, and the involvement of the mentioned CEOs is consistent with the reported joint announcement.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 50 Most Influential ranking has been published by Bloomberg Media since 2011, annually featuring 50 individuals or initiatives with "the ability to move markets or shape ideas and policies". Initi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Most_Influential_(Bloomberg…
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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 — Jonathan D. Gray (born February 4, 1970) is an American billionaire businessman who is the president and chief operating officer of Blackstone Group, a New York–based asset management firm. He is also…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_D._Gray
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Claim 4: “rating agencies like Moody's have warned that unprecedented capital expenditures are beginning to squeeze free cash flow and force tech giants into heavier debt loads.”
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While the evidence confirms that Moody's is a credit rating agency, the provided search results do not contain the specific warning regarding AI capital expenditures squeezing free cash flow for tech giants.
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web search NEUTRAL — Moody's Ratings provides international financial research on bonds issued by commercial and government entities. Along with Standard & Poor's and Fitch Group, Moody's is one of the Big Three credit ra…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moody's_Ratings
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web search NEUTRAL — Moody's Ratings, previously known as Moody's Investors Service, is the bond credit rating business of Moody's Corporation, representing the company's traditional line of business and its historical na…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moody's_Corporation
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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago · Moody’s delivers credit ratings, research, and a wide suite of data, analytics, and workflow solutions that help organizations understand risk and act with confidence.
https://www.moodys.com/
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Claim 5: “Apollo and Blackstone, among others, have already structured debt and equity financing for companies including Anthropic.”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that Apollo and Blackstone finalized a $35 billion private credit deal to finance Anthropic's AI infrastructure.
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web search NEUTRAL — Apollo Global Management and Blackstone have finalized a $35 billion private credit deal to finance Anthropic’s expansion into AI infrastructure, making it one of the largest private credit transactio…
https://cryptobriefing.com/apollo-blackstone-ai-private-cred…
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic $35B debt financing AI infrastructure deal closes with Apollo, Blackstone.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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web search NEUTRAL — Lease payments from Anthropic are expected to cover debt obligations, a financing model that is becoming increasingly common across the artificial intelligence sector. The senior debt portion includes…
https://econotimes.com/Apollo-and-Blackstone-Complete-35-Bil…
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Claim 6: “The chipmaker signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish financing platforms for Nvidia's customers”
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The specific list of partners (Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR) and the use of MOUs to establish financing platforms is supported by the reporting on the $500 billion initiative.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Apollo Global Management, Inc. is an American asset management firm that primarily invests in alternative assets. As of 2025, the company had $840 billion of assets under management, including $392 bi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Global_Management
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City. It was founded in 1985 as a mergers and acquisitions firm by Peter Peterson and Stephen Schwarzman, who…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone_Inc.
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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 7: “use at Blackstone portfolio companies surging sevenfold this year, Gray said.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to corroborate Jon Gray's statement regarding a sevenfold increase in AI use at Blackstone portfolio companies.
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Claim 8: “Executives from the seven companies joined CNBC's Becky Quick in a rare, live joint interview to discuss the announcement.”
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Evidence explicitly mentions a 'joint interview on CNBC involving executives from all seven companies' with Becky Quick.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anduril Industries, Inc. is an American military technology company specializing in the development of advanced autonomous systems. The company was founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey, Trae Stephens, Mat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anduril_Industries
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its flagship product is Claude, a series of proprietary large language…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Robert A. Kotick (born 1963) is an American businessman who was a founder and the chief executive officer (CEO) of Activision Blizzard and its predecessor, Activision, from 1991 to 2023. In June 2017,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kotick
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Claim 9: “Jensen approached the Wall Street giants about his idea for the financing project, Solomon told CNBC's Quick.”
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Web search results explicitly state that David Solomon told CNBC that Jensen Huang approached the Wall Street firms directly with the financing concept.
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web search NEUTRAL — Solomon told CNBC that Jensen Huang approached the Wall Street firms directly with the financing concept. The joint interview on CNBC involving executives from all seven companies was a rare public di…
https://www.compsmag.com/news/nvidia-lines-up-500-billion-in…
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web search NEUTRAL — Consulting firm Forrester Research projected that 3.4 million U.S. service-sector positions would go offshore by 2015. The number became political ammunition."Jensen came, approached us with the idea,…
https://qz.com/gateway/halloween-travel-luxury-hotels-haunte…
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web search NEUTRAL — Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) escalated pressure on Jensen Huang after a report said Nvidia Corp’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) civilian AI computers were found inside Russian drones allegedly being tested for autonomo…
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/elizabeth-w…
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