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Capital flow drill-down

Money in, revenue out: the full breakdown.

Issue 23 · Week 39 of 2026.

The four-category capital scorecard expanded with named transactions, burn-to-revenue context, and per-category trends across recent issues. Each row corresponds to a row in the summary table on the issue page.

Capital flow scorecard

Capital in, revenue out, burn ratio, and movement.

Capital in, revenue out, and direction of travel for this issue.
CategoryCapital inRevenue outBurn to revenueMovement
Frontier LabsOpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, DeepSeekNo disclosed primary financing in the observation windowPrior No disclosed primary financing in the observation window · FlatUndisclosedPrior Undisclosed · FlatUnknownFlat on disclosed financing. The week's lab fact is a product pause and two model launches, not a raise.
Hyperscaler-HostedAzure-OpenAI, AWS-Anthropic, Google Cloud-Gemini, Oracle-OCINo new category-wide financing disclosedPrior No new category-wide financing disclosed · FlatNo new AI-segment revenue disclosurePrior No new AI-segment revenue disclosure · FlatUnknownFlat on disclosed dollars. Alibaba Cloud announced new regions without a capital figure.
NeocloudsCoreWeave, Nscale, Crusoe, Lambda, IREN, Zankore, NEXTDC$4.2B of 2.875% convertible notes due 2033, option exercised in fullPrior $3.0B convertible notes, with a $500M buyer option · UpNo new revenue disclosurePrior No new revenue disclosure · FlatUnknown; principal and coupon are disclosed, operating cash conversion is notUp. The September 17 announcement closed above the original $3 billion, with the $500 million option taken.
On-Prem / HybridEnterprise GPU clusters, sovereign and national programs, open-weight and on-device deploymentNo comparable disclosed program in the windowPrior No comparable disclosed program in the window · FlatIndirectPrior Indirect · FlatNot applicableFlat on disclosed capital. Up in product surface: a handset platform and a Chinese accelerator both aimed at local or domestic compute.

Category

Frontier Labs.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, DeepSeek

Capital in
No disclosed primary financing in the observation windowvs No disclosed primary financing in the observation window · Flat
Revenue out
Undisclosedvs Undisclosed · Flat
Burn / rev
UnknownLower means more capital out than in.

The read

No frontier lab disclosed a primary financing or a segment revenue figure. Anthropic and SpaceXAI shipped models, and OpenAI paused tool-use work on its most capable tier. None of those is a ledger entry for capital in or revenue out.

This week's transactions

Named transactions and source context.
DateTransactionAmountSource
Sep 22No qualifying disclosed lab financingNot disclosedAnthropic launch post

Trend across recent issues

W32W33W34W35W36W37W38W39
Capital in
$95B, $95B, $95B, $95B, n/a, n/a, $0B, $0B
Revenue out
$21B, $21B, $21B, $21B, n/a, n/a, n/a, n/a

Category

Hyperscaler-Hosted.

Azure-OpenAI, AWS-Anthropic, Google Cloud-Gemini, Oracle-OCI

Capital in
No new category-wide financing disclosedvs No new category-wide financing disclosed · Flat
Revenue out
No new AI-segment revenue disclosurevs No new AI-segment revenue disclosure · Flat
Burn / rev
UnknownLower means more capital out than in.

The read

The category did not publish a new AI-segment revenue number or a new capex total. Alibaba Cloud said it will add first regions in Turkey, Finland, and the Netherlands over twelve months and expand capacity in five existing footprints. That is a location list, not a spend figure, so it stays out of the capital-in column.

This week's transactions

Named transactions and source context.
DateTransactionAmountSource
Sep 23Alibaba Cloud region plan, no dollar figureNot disclosedAlibaba Cloud

Trend across recent issues

W32W33W34W35W36W37W38W39
Capital in
$250B, $250B, $250B, $250B, n/a, n/a, $18B, $0B
Revenue out
$70B, $70B, $70B, $70B, n/a, n/a, n/a, n/a

Category

Neoclouds.

CoreWeave, Nscale, Crusoe, Lambda, IREN, Zankore, NEXTDC

Capital in
$4.2B of 2.875% convertible notes due 2033, option exercised in fullvs $3.0B convertible notes, with a $500M buyer option · Up
Revenue out
No new revenue disclosurevs No new revenue disclosure · Flat
Burn / rev
Unknown; principal and coupon are disclosed, operating cash conversion is notLower means more capital out than in.

The read

CoreWeave's September 22 filing is the category's fact home. The company completed $4.2 billion aggregate principal of 2.875% convertible senior notes due 2033, including the purchasers' option. Reported net proceeds are about $4.137 billion before a capped-call outlay. Coupon, size, and close are known. What the cash does to delivered megawatts is not in the filing.

This week's transactions

Named transactions and source context.
DateTransactionAmountSource
Sep 22CoreWeave convertible notes closed$4.2B principalCoreWeave 8-K

Trend across recent issues

W32W33W34W35W36W37W38W39
Capital in
$17B, $19.6B, $24.6B, $25.5B, n/a, n/a, $3B, $4.2B
Revenue out
$5B, $8B, $8B, $8B, n/a, n/a, n/a, n/a

Category

On-Prem / Hybrid.

Enterprise GPU clusters, sovereign and national programs, open-weight and on-device deployment

Capital in
No comparable disclosed program in the windowvs No comparable disclosed program in the window · Flat
Revenue out
Indirectvs Indirect · Flat
Burn / rev
Not applicableLower means more capital out than in.

The read

Qualcomm's new phone platforms and T-Head's V900 are product announcements, not financed programs with a disclosed dollar size. They belong in the hardware lens. They do not change this row's capital-in figure.

This week's transactions

Named transactions and source context.
DateTransactionAmountSource
Sep 22No qualifying disclosed on-prem financingNot disclosedTechCrunch

Trend across recent issues

W32W33W34W35W36W37W38W39
Capital in
$101B, $103B, $103B, $103B, n/a, n/a, $0B, $0B
Revenue out
$36B, $38B, $38B, $38B, n/a, n/a, n/a, n/a

Methodology

Capital-in and revenue-out figures are quarterly or annualized as noted in the row, sourced from public earnings disclosures, SEC filings, and lab and vendor announcements. Burn-to-Revenue is revenue divided by committed capital. The trend chart shows up to eight prior issues. Data is updated weekly; revisions in future issues do not retroactively edit this one.

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