Nvidia is rolling out a partnership programme that gives fast-growing cloud-based AI firms and model builders token credits to run development on Nvidia hardware in exchange for a slice of future revenue, using third-party capacity rather than direct sales.
The arrangement pairs Nvidia with Australia-based Sharon AI, which plans to deploy up to 40,000 Nvidia GPUs, and Singapore infrastructure firm Firmus Technologies, which says its upcoming Batam, Indonesia data centre will scale to 360 megawatts and house up to 170,000 Nvidia GPUs, while startups and Nvidia split product and cloud receipts.
Nvidia said in an announcement the initial partners together could provide access to more than 210,000 GPUs and described the offers as revenue-sharing credits that route startup demand to partner-run capacity, positioning Nvidia as an intermediary between customers and full-stack compute powered by its chips.
The next milestones named by the companies are Sharon’s GPU deployment and Firmus’s Batam build‑out, which will determine how much partner capacity is available to startups using the programme.
