Important points
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The AI cloud services market is expected to reach an estimated value of $400 billion by 2031.
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Nvidia is the clear leader in AI processors, but Google’s TPUs could end up being a threat.
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CoreWeave is a leading AI cloud services company, and its new joint venture with Google is targeting this market.
At a recent I/O conference, alphabet(NASDAQ:Google)(NASDAQ:GOOG) has shocked the world of artificial intelligence (AI) by announcing a number of new AI services. But one of the company’s most important announcements was a new AI cloud computing company it launched in collaboration with venture firm Blackstone.
Although in its early stages, this new company could make an impact Nvidia‘s (NASDAQ:NVDA) AI hardware business coreweave‘s (NASDAQ:CRWV) AI cloud business. Here’s how:
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How Alphabet’s new venture could impact Nvidia’s business
Nvidia currently holds a dominant position in the AI space, with its chip designs accounting for 86% of data center market revenue.
Nvidia started out excelling in graphics processing and now has a long-standing lead in AI computing, developing high-performance processors. As a result, revenue skyrocketed, increasing 85% to $81.6 billion in the first quarter of 2027, and non-GAAP earnings were $1.87 per share, up 140% for the year.
But not everyone is happy about Nvidia’s dominance. Google relies heavily on Nvidia processors in its data centers and has long developed its own tensor processing units (TPUs) to alleviate some of its hardware needs.
And now the company may be ready to take even more advantage of TPUs with its new AI cloud company. The joint venture with Blackstone will deploy 500 megawatts of capacity by 2027 and rely heavily on Google’s own TPUs for processors. From there, the company has “plans to significantly expand its scale over time.” Since the company’s TPUs are dedicated to AI and designed by Google, it may be more efficient for Google to use its own TPUs for training Gemini AI models and AI inference.
This could ultimately impact Nvidia, as Alphabet spends a lot of money (up to $185 billion this year alone) on capital expenditures (mainly for data centers). And the company says it could spend even more next year. Some of Alphabet’s AI spending could eventually shift away from Nvidia’s processors as it increasingly uses its own TPUs.
That’s clearly a negative for Nvidia, as many other tech giants apple, Amazonand microsoftall working on their own custom AI chip designs.
Nvidia investors don’t need to worry about this yet, but Google’s move is part of a broader story of technology companies wanting to reduce their dependence on Nvidia, which is worth monitoring closely.
CoreWeave may also eventually be under threat
Another part of this is Google’s intrusion into CoreWeave’s AI Cloud-as-a-Service business. This market is huge, estimated to reach $400 billion by 2031.
CoreWeave has a huge lead over Google and has received significant backing, including Nvidia’s recent $2 billion investment in the company. However, some analysts are already warning of the impact on CoreWeave’s business due to the provision of alternative services to CoreWeave’s services.
Bernstein analyst Madison Rezaei said the CoreWeave breach could be a “more serious attack” and that “competition will compress CoreWeave’s pricing power and new business margins, making it more difficult to transition to serving a broader enterprise customer base.”
Google’s move comes at a time when CoreWeave is investing heavily to meet demand and expanding its AI cloud service to more than 5 gigawatts of AI computing processing by 2030.
It won’t be easy to displace CoreWeave in cloud AI services, but Google doesn’t need to dominate the market for CoreWeave to be affected. Simply offering an alternative to CoreWeave could undermine the company’s existing pricing power. This is especially problematic since CoreWeave has taken on significant debt to expand its business.
While it’s not the time for Nvidia or CoreWeave investors to panic, Google’s new AI cloud company is definitely something shareholders should keep an eye on. Zooming out, the big picture is that competition in the AI infrastructure space is increasing, with companies looking to reduce costs while building more capabilities.
And that means the early leads some AI companies once had (and were expected to maintain for years) are under more threat than ever.
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