Over the past two decades, Nvidia has greatly expanded beyond its gaming GPU roots into HPC and AI, the CPU business, a dominant position in networking, and as a world class leader in AI software.
Its latest target for expansion is to become a financial that would position the company is not only the supplier of the AI equipment but also the financier.
According to a new research from to step up its offering of funding where the traditional suppliers, banks and venture capital firms, would typically play a role.
The report argues that AI infrastructure spending is on track to exceed $2 trillion annually by 2028, with cumulative investment reaching roughly $11.1 trillion between 2024 and 2029. Financing those projects will require a massive expansion of credit markets, which could result in a cumulative collective AI-related debt of $7 trillion by the end of the decade.
With deals reaching into the multibillion-dollar range, banks and venture funds simply don’t have that kind of money. Enter Nvidia. As of the first fiscal quarter of 2027 ended April 26, 2026, Nvidia was sitting on roughly $80.5 billion in cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments.
After became the limiting factor in early 2026, financing has emerged as the next major obstacle to scaling AI infrastructure. “It is clear that financing will now be one of the most significant obstacles to ramping large-scale compute broadly available to everyone,” the authors wrote.
Rather than simply selling GPUs, : Nvidia invests in an AI provider, such as CoreWeave or Neibius And the company turns around and buys Nvidia chips so the money essentially goes in a circle.
If Nvidia can pull this off, the strategy would make the vendor unique in that it expands beyond supplying hardware and software and it becomes a financial institution on part with banks, investment firms, and venture capitalists supporting the industry’s next phase of expansion.
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