Intrator: CoreWeave created the first GPU-collateralized loan structures
Michael Intrator · Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN · Mar 23, 2026 · at 18:45
Michael Intrator, CEO of AI cloud infrastructure provider CoreWeave, discusses the origin of GPU debt financing.
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“CoreWeave has really been the innovator around a lot of the financing engines that have come to bear on this. We did the first GPU based loans.”
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