CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) just secured a $21 billion commitment from Meta, expanding what was already a landmark relationship and cementing CoreWeave as the preferred AI cloud infrastructure partner for the world’s largest social platform. We’ve been watching CoreWeave for the past year now, and this deal is the kind of contract that rewrites a company’s story.
For context: CoreWeave had already announced a multi-year deal with Meta worth up to $14.2B in Q3 2025. This expansion pushes the total commitment to $21 billion, reflecting how aggressively Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META | META Price Prediction) is scaling its AI infrastructure. Meta guided for $115 to $135 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, and its Meta Superintelligence Labs initiative is driving enormous compute demand that its own data centers cannot fully absorb.
CoreWeave’s stock has responded. We’re seeing shares up roughly 34% over the past week, trading at $118.69 against an IPO filing price of $89.05. The company already carries a $66.8 billion revenue backlog, and full-year 2025 revenue hit $5.13 billion, up 168% year over year.
The clearest secondary winner here is NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA). CoreWeave runs on NVIDIA GPUs, holds a $6.3 billion strategic collaboration with NVIDIA, and was named NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud for training workloads on the GB200 NVL72. Every dollar Meta commits to CoreWeave flows through NVIDIA’s hardware stack.
If you believe Meta’s AI ambitions are real and durable, CoreWeave is the toll road you have to pay attention to, and NVIDIA is the company that paved it.