Nvidia announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent financing platforms designed to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital to support the buildout of AI infrastructure over time. According to a blog written by Jensen Huang, founder and CEO, Nvidia, published August 11, 2026, AI has reached an inflection point, moving from research into production, with compute becoming revenue. Nvidia compute is described as a complete AI factory platform, including accelerated computing, networking, systems software, AI frameworks and a global developer ecosystem. Nvidia DSX AI factories can run the world’s broadest range of AI models, modalities and algorithms, and one factory can serve many customers and workloads. The Nvidia A100, introduced in 2020, remains in active commercial use six years later for AI training, fine-tuning, inference and high-performance computing, with customers committing capacity for multi-year deployments, extending its economic life toward a decade. One-year H100 rental pricing rose from about $1.70 per GPU-hour in October 2025 to about $2.35 per GPU-hour in March 2026. Cross-provider on-demand median pricing rose from roughly $2.00 per GPU-hour in October 2025 to $2.70 in June 2026. Blackwell capacity commands a premium, with reported B200 cloud rates spanning approximately $5.30 to $7.05 per GPU.