The AI cloud is heading into the vault. CoreWeave is taking it to the spies.
The AI cloud is heading into the vault. CoreWeave rents high-end GPUs to the biggest AI labs. Now it wants to run that same cloud inside the sealed facilities where America keeps its secrets, with the contractor Leidos as its guide.
The two companies announced the collaboration on Thursday. CoreWeave will place its AI platform inside Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities, the sealed rooms known as SCIFs where classified intelligence is stored and analysed. Leidos will handle the parts a commercial cloud provider cannot: accreditation, secure architecture, cyber operations and mission integration.
The customers are America’s spy agencies and the Department of War, as the Pentagon is now styled. Both sides call it “sovereign” AI capacity. It is the same stack CoreWeave rents to commercial labs, rebuilt to the rules that classified work demands.
What they plan to sell
The two companies sketched out five things they intend to offer. There...
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