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Funding

CoreWeave boosts yield on $2.6B loan for Anthropic compute via wider pricing spreads

CoreWeave Inc., the GPU cloud provider, widened borrowing terms on a $2.6 billion delayed-draw term loan backed by customer contracts with Anthropic, Jane Street, Midjourney, Hudson River Trading, and others. Pricing spreads increased to as high as 5.5 percentage points over the benchmark, up 1.25 points from initial discussions, while the loan discount fell from 99 cents to 97 cents on the dollar—both moves effectively boosting the yield to attract debt investors amid growing caution around AI infrastructure lending.

The repricing reflects tightening appetite in the leveraged loan market: lenders have grown wary of valuations in the AI boom as competition for GPU capacity intensifies and funding multiples compress. CoreWeave's infrastructure plays underpins compute for frontier labs (Anthropic, Jane Street) and generative-AI firms, but the company is still unproven at the scale it aims for, making institutional debt investors demand higher risk compensation.

For architects tracking capital deployment: this signals credit-market skepticism about near-term ROI in AI infrastructure despite soaring revenue (~$5B in 2025, $12B+ guided 2026). GPU collateral is now being priced as investment-grade stable assets—a structural shift—but investors want coupons that match tail risk of hardware obsolescence and customer concentration (Microsoft accounted for ~67% of CoreWeave revenue in 2025).

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