Nvidia Interim CEO Colette Kress Reshapes AI Financing Strategy
Nvidia appointed longtime CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO after Jensen Huang resigned, while the board searches for a permanent successor. Reports citing The Wall Street Journal and people familiar with the negotiations say Kress challenged Nvidia's expanded chip-financing guarantees and renegotiated support for OpenAI's Ohio data-center project. The initial proposal could have included up to $250 billion in financing support, while later reports said Nvidia committed about $100 billion to the first portion of a split arrangement.
Kress's reported intervention indicates that Nvidia's AI financing strategy is already being reassessed under scrutiny from its finance leadership and board.
11月13日，据《华尔街日报》报道，今年夏天，黄仁勋(Jensen Huang)把英伟达的几位高级财务主管叫到办公室。由于靠英伟达疯狂投资支撑起来的AI经济正摇摇欲坠，黄仁勋希望确保公司没有走错方向。在开会期间，他开始严厉斥责如今接替他出任英伟达临时CEO的科莱特·克雷斯(Colette Kress)。克雷斯当时担任CFO。
黄仁勋与克雷斯
据一位了解当时谈话内容的人士透露，在克雷斯进行汇报时，黄仁勋打断了她，称她“像一头被车灯照得不知所措的鹿”。
黄仁勋当时把克雷斯及其高级财务团队召来，是为了查明一个日益严重的问题：英伟达正在与一些无力购买其芯片的公司谈判，考虑为这些公司提供数十亿美元的担保。其中包括由黄仁勋的女婿尼科·卡普雷兹(Nico Caprez)主导的交易。卡普雷兹一直向新兴云服务提供商和数据中心开发商提供融资，希望将它们培养成英伟达的长期客户。
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