The NVIDIA Blog announcement highlights a significant shift in how AI compute is financed and deployed. In our view, this model is less about unlocking access for startups and more about ensuring NVIDIA's hardware remains the de facto standard as the industry scales. By embedding itself deeper into the capital stack, NVIDIA arguably creates a more predictable revenue stream and raises barriers for competing architectures. However, the success of this plan hinges on the financial stability of the partner cloud companies and the sustained demand for token generation, which is not guaranteed.