AI cloud provider Coreweave faced a dramatic year with a hyped but underwhelming March IPO and a failed October acquisition of partner Core Scientific. CEO Michael Intrator defended the volatile stock and high debt, framing the company as a disruptive force building a new cloud model. Coreweave pivoted from crypto-mining to a key AI infrastructure player, backed by major partnerships with Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI, and expanded via several acquisitions.