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CoreWeave lands multibillion-dollar Hudson River AI-cloud deal

CoreWeave + Hudson River Trading + NVIDIA

Primary sourcePress release only2026-08-20
Deal structureMulti-year AI cloud capacity agreement
GeographyUnited States
Infrastructure layersGPU cloud capacity + networking + storage + financial-services AI
Disclosed scaleMultibillion-dollar, multi-year agreement for NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 and Blackwell infrastructure on CoreWeave Cloud

Why it matters

The strategic read

Extends the AI-cloud contract wave beyond frontier labs and hyperscalers into quantitative finance, with a sophisticated trading firm committing multibillion-dollar spend to next-generation Vera Rubin capacity. It also gives CoreWeave a large production customer whose low-latency research workloads test compute, networking and storage as one integrated platform.

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What was disclosed

  1. 01

    CoreWeave and Hudson River Trading signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year AI cloud agreement.

  2. 02

    HRT will use CoreWeave for AI research, model development and training workloads.

  3. 03

    The platform includes clusters of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 and NVIDIA Blackwell systems.

  4. 04

    CoreWeave will provide Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, dedicated storage and links between HRT's on-premises environment and its cloud platform.

  5. 05

    The parties did not disclose the exact contract value, capacity, GPU count, start date or term length.

Disclosure boundary

What is known—and what is not

Multi-year agreement announced by CoreWeave. The primary issuer release describes the deal as multibillion-dollar and identifies the customer, workload, Vera Rubin NVL72 and Blackwell compute, Spectrum-X networking, dedicated storage and hybrid-connectivity scope. Public materials do not disclose exact value, contract duration, committed capacity, GPU count, deployment locations, service start, pricing, minimum-spend schedule, renewal terms, remedies or termination rights.