Isnt that... what circular financing often refers to?
If I invest in you and you use my stack and pay me for it. It's circular. I don't think it should be illegal to do this type of vendor financing/investment or what not as it has its legitimate uses.
I don't think 1 loop is enough. You could remove the loop by just giving the GPUs directly as part of the investment. But investing in pure cash gives more flexibility especially in time where there may not even been spare GPUs able to be given away.
It's almost certainly about making sure that these startups use Nvidia stack.
If I invest in you and you use my stack and pay me for it. It's circular. I don't think it should be illegal to do this type of vendor financing/investment or what not as it has its legitimate uses.
But it is circular.
It's just to make sure the next OpenAI uses Nvidia stack.