CoreWeave’s (CRWV) shares gained about 2% on Thursday afternoon after the AI cloud company announced that it has expanded the capabilities of SUNK “to bring AI workloads online faster — anywhere.”
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SUNK is CoreWeave’s unified AI training system built for massive AI workloads. The system offers a self-service feature, which the New Jersey-based company has now expanded with a SUNK Anywhere feature that enables organizations to deploy the platform across various multi-cloud or on-premises environments.
CoreWeave said its goal is to make setting up and operating AI clusters faster and more flexible while reducing the burden of assembling such systems.
According to Chen Goldberg, CoreWeave’s executive vice president of product engineering, every AI team the company works with now runs clusters across more regions, hardware generations, and cloud environments compared to a year ago.
“What slows them down is having to relearn the stack every time or losing visibility and control when they cross environments,” Goldberg noted. He added, “Self-service and SUNK Anywhere give teams the same scheduling and operational discipline, from a researcher’s first cluster to production runs.”
‘CoreWeave Is Becoming the Neocloud of Choice’
Meanwhile, the expansion comes as CoreWeave has emerged as one of the leading neocloud companies on Wall Street, that is, businesses that provide the extra cloud computing capacity Big Tech companies such as Meta (META) need to supplement their own internal systems.
This month, CoreWeave signed a multi-year partnership deal with top AI startup Anthropic, thereby expanding its major client list to nine. DA Davidson analyst Alex Platt contended that the move is another sign that “CoreWeave is becoming the neocloud of choice” for leading AI companies.
The firm also recently entered an expanded $21 billion AI deal with Meta.
Is CoreWeave a Good Stock to Purchase?
On Wall Street, analysts rate CoreWeave’s shares as a Moderate Buy. This is based on 15 Buys, eight Holds, and one Sell issued by 24 analysts over the past three months.
However, the average CRWV price target of $125.73 suggests about 8% upside from current trading levels.
