NEW YORK, Jan 7, 2026, 15:21 EST — Regular session
CoreWeave shares rose about 1.1% to $78.81 in afternoon trading on Wednesday, after moving between $75.77 and $79.92. Nvidia shares were up about 1.1%.
The AI cloud provider said on Monday it will add Nvidia’s Rubin platform to its infrastructure and expects to be among the first cloud providers to deploy it in the second half of 2026. Chief executive Michael Intrator called Rubin “an important advancement” as customers push into agentic systems — software that can plan tasks and act on them. 1
Nvidia unveiled Rubin at CES and CEO Jensen Huang said it arrives “at exactly the right moment” as demand rises for training and inference, the job of running a trained model to generate answers. Nvidia said Rubin is designed to cut inference token costs — tokens are chunks of text a model reads or writes — and to train “mixture-of-experts” models, which route work to specialist parts, with fewer GPUs. It listed cloud giants including Amazon Web Services, Google and Oracle, plus startups such as OpenAI and xAI, as expected adopters.
That crowded list is why CoreWeave investors track every product cycle. D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria upgraded the stock to neutral from underperform and raised his price target to $68, but he still saw an “inevitable reckoning” if returns stay below the company’s cost of capital, Barron’s reported. 2
Another new note struck a more cautious tone. Truist Securities analyst Arvind Ramnani started coverage with a hold rating and an $84 price target, pointing to high leverage and heavy capital spending needs. 3
A Form 144 filing also showed company officer Brannin McBee, through a trust, proposed to sell 8,335 shares worth about $661,000 at recent prices. Form 144 is a notice tied to possible insider sales; it does not mean the trade will occur.
CoreWeave’s buildout stays capital-hungry, and financing is a swing factor for the stock. In December, it priced an upsized $2.25 billion private offering of 1.75% convertible senior notes due 2031 — debt that can turn into stock — and said it would spend part of the proceeds on hedges designed to limit dilution. 4
Traders now look to Nvidia’s GTC conference in San Jose on March 16-19 for more detail on Rubin production and delivery schedules, with CoreWeave’s deployment timeline as a read-across.
