CoreWeave reported Q2 revenue of $2.58 billion, more than doubling year over year from $1.21 billion in the same quarter last year, according to the company's earnings announcement. The infrastructure-as-a-service provider's stock surged 17 percent intraday on August 12 following the earnings release.
The 112 percent year-over-year growth tracks acceleration in demand for GPU capacity and compute resources supporting artificial intelligence workloads. CoreWeave supplies infrastructure to enterprises and AI model developers requiring specialized hardware for training and inference.
CoreWeave competes with larger players including Nvidia, which supplies the chips CoreWeave's data centers run, and specialized competitors like Lambda Labs and Crusoe Energy. The company has expanded its data center footprint globally to handle demand that accelerated through 2025 and into 2026. Venture investors including Sapphire Ventures and Lowerbound have backed the company, which was founded in 2017 as a GPU cloud platform.
The earnings result sent CoreWeave shares higher as traders reassessed the company's growth trajectory in an AI infrastructure market that has consolidated around a small set of providers. CoreWeave's quarterly revenue growth of 112 percent year over year compares to 19 percent for Amazon Web Services and 26 percent for Google Cloud in their most recent full quarters.
CoreWeave will need to sustain revenue growth above $10 billion annually to justify the valuation expectations embedded in its August 2024 Series D funding round, which valued the company at $23 billion.