Crypto miners pivoted to GPUs for AI: CoreWeave’s unlikely route to cloud infrastructure
CoreWeave was founded in 2017 by Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee, initially using GPUs for cryptocurrency mining before recognising that the same hardware could be rented for other compute-intensive workloads. The founders began turning a mining operation into a specialised cloud capable of supplying GPU capacity to visual-effects, machine-learning and other customers.
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