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CoreWeave ( NASDAQ:CRWV ) shares jumped 6.96% to $49.63 as of 11:08 a.m. ET on Monday, November 9, in regular trading, after the AI cloud provider signed a multi-year agreement to power training for Wayve's autonomous-driving AI. Wayve will use CoreWeave Cloud running Nvidia Blackwell GPUs for training, evaluation and simulation.
Wayve builds a mapless, hardware-agnostic AI Driver for personal cars and robotaxis, trained on driving data from more than 70 countries. CoreWeave already serves nine of the top ten foundation model providers, Investing.com reported on Monday. Neither company disclosed the contract value. For scale, CoreWeave's expanded agreement with Meta, announced in April, is worth about $21 billion through December 2032.
CoreWeave's GF Score is only 15/100 on GuruFocus, with Financial Strength at 3/10, Profitability at 1/10, and Growth, GF Value Rank and Momentum at zero, which likely reflects heavy debt-funded expansion and a short public history. That score is a clear warning that the balance sheet, not demand, is the constraint. Wayve diversifies CoreWeave into physical AI, but every new contract requires more GPUs and more financing. The deal value is undisclosed, so its scale cannot be measured. The next test is CoreWeave's third-quarter report this week, including backlog, capex funding and customer concentration.
