Nvidia Lets AI Startups Use Chips Now and Pay With Share of Future Revenue

Nvidia (NVDA) said AI startups can access its chips now and repay by sharing future revenue, adding a recurring, usage-linked earnings stream beyond one-time GPU sales. According to BeInCrypto, the revenue-sharing program was detailed in a July 1 blog post co-authored with CFO Colette Kress, with cloud partners buying Nvidia systems and selling compute access while Nvidia takes a cut of the cloud revenue. Sharon AI plans to install up to 40,000 Grace Blackwell GB300 chips under the program, while Firmus is building a 360-megawatt campus in Batam, Indonesia, for up to 170,000 more GPUs, operational by Q1 2027.