Episode summary
CoreWeave Shares Soar After Booming AI Demand Boosts Outlook | Bloomberg Intelligence
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· · 26 min · Hosts: Paul Sweeney, Stacey Vanek Smith · Guests: Anurag Rana, Woo Jin Ho, Michael Halen, Jennifer Rie
Summary
The discussion centered on how strong AI infrastructure demand is still driving results for companies tied to Nvidia and cloud buildouts. The guest said CoreWeave’s business is essentially renting out Nvidia GPUs to end customers, and argued the stock’s jump reflected a market that sees no shortage of demand, only bottlenecks in data-center capacity and financing. He also said the AI trade is broader than GPUs, pointing to optical-networking names such as Ciena, Corning and Nokia as beneficiaries of the need to move data faster across facilities.
On hardware, the guest said Super Micro’s raised guidance showed the AI infrastructure buildout is still “really going well,” while Cisco may have room to top expectations with fiscal 2027 sales around $70 billion if AI demand stays strong. He added that neocloud and hyperscaler spending still has runway into 2027 and early 2028, while enterprise AI spending is just starting to ramp and could support a second cycle later this year and in 2027.
The restaurant segment was more idiosyncratic: Cava’s sales growth was driven by traffic and premium add-ons like salmon, and Brinker’s Chili’s turnaround was credited to better operations, marketing and menu execution. The final segment focused on Paramount’s legal fight over its proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, where the guest said settlement pressure is building as fee deadlines approach.
Key takeaways
- The guest said CoreWeave’s results show AI compute demand remains strong, with the main constraint now data-center buildout, not customer appetite.
- He argued the AI infrastructure trade still favors Nvidia-linked names, but optical networking firms like Ciena, Corning and Nokia also stand to benefit.
- For Super Micro Computer, the guest said guidance of $65 billion to $72 billion for fiscal 2027 was a major upside surprise that confirms the buildout is continuing.
- He expects neocloud and hyperscaler AI spending to have good runway into 2027 and early 2028, while enterprise AI spending is only beginning to ramp.
- The guest said Cava is winning on traffic and premium items, while Brinker’s Chili’s turnaround shows how execution and marketing can revive a restaurant brand.
- On Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, the guest said timing pressure and fee risk may eventually force a settlement even though both sides are posturing now.
Notable quotes
“there is no shortage of demand right now. It's all about AI compute constraints”
“This is arguably the most exciting place to grow for all cloud infrastructure because this is really what people are using to train their models”
“the bogey for me at least was uh $60 billion in the guidance for fiscal 2027. and they blew that away”
“we have to put this into two buckets Paul uh one you got the the hypers scale cloud as well as the um I guess a neocloud bucket”
“People are becoming more discerning. When they have a good experience, they go back. If they don't, see you”
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All right. There's this company out there, Core Weef. I don't really know what they do, but they're infrastructure software company.
I hear it a bunch. Um, they offer cloud infrastructure platform that manages the complexity of engineering, assembling, running, and monitoring state-of-the-art infrastructure. So, it's a big tech company and it's called infrastructure software.
The company name is Coreweave. The stocks up big time. They reported some big-time numbers last night.
People look at this company because it's a one of the ways to get a sense of where this AI spending is going. And I guess the direction is up here. Honor Rana, he knows what's going on here.
He's a senior tech analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence. Honor, do a better job of explaining to our listeners and viewers what Corewave does and why it's important in the tech stack and kind of what we learned on the earnings.
Yeah, it's a it's a think about it as somebody who's just renting out Nvidia GPUs to end customers. So, if Nvidia makes the products, these guys are installing it in big data centers and letting people rent it out. Now, this is part of a massive boom of uh a kind of companies called Neoclouds.
So when you look at the core cloud infrastructure, you know, you have your Amazons, your Microsofts and your Googles, they do all sorts of things. And then these guys specialize only in renting out, you know, I would say in most cases, Nvidia GPU chips.
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Topics
- ai demand
- server sales forecasts
- restaurant earnings
- antitrust clearance and litigation
- merger timeline
Companies and tickers mentioned
- SMCI
- CAVA
- EAT
- CoreWeave
- Super Micro Computer
- Cava Group
- Brinker International
- Paramount Skydance
- Warner Bros. Discovery
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