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Nvidia Partnership Plans $500B AI Financing Fund

8/16/2026

Summary

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a partnership to raise $500 billion for AI financing.
Goldman Sachs leads, courting insurers, asset managers and banks to place the debt in public markets.
Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield and KKR pledged funding for the program.
Nvidia may backstop up to $125 billion, or 25 % of any individual transaction.
The financing will be asset-backed securities tied to chips and offtake contracts, with no final agreements or timeline.

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Intel’s history of deploying multi-billion-dollar capital—such as the $30 billion Brookfield partnership in August 2022 and the $20 billion Ohio fab announced January 2022—has repeatedly reshaped its manufacturing base. Now Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is proposing a $500 billion AI financing consortium led by Goldman Sachs, aiming to replicate that scale to lock in AI-chip infrastructure.

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Story summary

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a partnership to raise $500 billion for AI financing.
Goldman Sachs leads, courting insurers, asset managers and banks to place the debt in public markets.
Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield and KKR pledged funding for the program.
Nvidia may backstop up to $125 billion, or 25 % of any individual transaction.
The financing will be asset-backed securities tied to chips and offtake contracts, with no final agreements or timeline.

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