
周一上午宣布的三笔超大型人工智能融资交易有一个共同名字:高盛集团。
A trio of mega artificial intelligence financing deals announced Monday morning had one name in common: Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
这家华尔街银行共同牵头了Meta Platforms Inc.(Meta平台公司)950亿美元的股票发行,担任SpaceX 400亿美元芯片融资交易的唯一结构代理,并被任命为Anthropic PBC大规模首次公开募股(IPO)的牵头主承销商——预计该IPO规模至少与SpaceX 6月的上市规模相当。
The Wall Street bank co-led Meta Platforms Inc.’s $95 billion share offering, was the sole structuring agent on a $40 billion SpaceX chip financing deal and was named lead-left bookrunner on Anthropic PBC’s blockbuster initial public offering — which is expected to be at least as big as SpaceX’s listing in June.
这些大额交易总额至少达2100亿美元,对高盛而言是一大福音,该行因参与这些交易预计将获得至少数千万——甚至数亿美元——的意外之财。
Those big deals, totaling at least $210 billion, are a boon for Goldman, which is likely to see a windfall worth at least tens — if not hundreds — of millions of dollars for its work.
知情人士透露,高盛在Anthropic IPO中占据显要位置令一些人感到意外,此前摩根士丹利一直主导扩大这家AI公司的循环债务融资额度工作。高盛与Anthropic的关系由驻旧金山的银行家Nick Giovanni和Jung Min负责,后者还是英伟达公司的顶级银行家之一。高盛代表拒绝置评。
Goldman’s prominent position on the Anthropic IPO came as a surprise to some, after Morgan Stanley has led work expanding the AI firm’s debt revolver facility. Goldman’s relationship with Anthropic is led by San Francisco-based bankers Nick Giovanni and Jung Min, who’s also a top banker to Nvidia Corp., a person familiar with the matter said. A representative for Goldman declined to comment.
华尔街正竞相为AI狂热提供融资,其中包括对芯片和数据中心的激增需求,以提供支持该技术所需的算力。但债务和股权投入该领域的规模不断上升,加上前沿AI实验室的现金消耗,引发了担忧,即部分融资可能难以为继。
Wall Street has been racing to finance the AI frenzy, which includes the surging demand for chips and data centers to provide computing power needed to back the technology. But the rising levels of debt and equity pouring into the space, along with cash burn at frontier AI labs, have raised worries that some of the financing could be unsustainable.
这些日益显现的担忧迹象正体现在CoreWeave Inc.等公司的债务和股权上。一些“新云”公司——为构建和运行人工智能模型的企业提供算力的公司——的股价在过去一个月里大幅下跌。
Those mounting signs of concern are showing up in the debt and equity of companies including CoreWeave Inc. Shares of some neoclouds — companies that provide computing power to firms building and running artificial intelligence models — have slumped in the past month.
虽然华尔街大行尚未披露直接与人工智能热潮挂钩的费用细节,但资本争夺战已助推其投资银行业务。今年前九个月,五大投行承销收入合计接近190亿美元以上,其中股权资本市场业务收入同比激增48%,债务承销收入增长13%。
While Wall Street banks haven’t detailed the fees directly tied to the AI boom, the rush for capital has been helped lift their investment banking units. The five biggest firms racked up almost more than $19 billion from underwriting revenue in the first nine months of the year, including a 48% jump in equity capital markets and a 13% rise from debt underwriting.
高盛力争分一杯羹,包括在8月成为一项合作伙伴关系中唯一的参与银行,该合作承诺为英伟达客户提供5000亿美元的人工智能芯片交易融资。
Goldman has pushed to get in on the boom, including landing a spot as the only bank in a partnership that committed in August to financing $500 billion of AI chips deals for customers of Nvidia.
在SpaceX于周一宣布的交易中,埃隆·马斯克旗下公司向英伟达采购芯片,由阿波罗全球管理公司通过租赁安排提供支持。高盛担任结构化代理,其资产管理部门管理的基金向该交易投入资金。据另一位知情人士透露,这笔交易独立于上述英伟达合作伙伴关系,源于数月前SpaceX致电高盛后促成,该人士同样因讨论非公开信息而要求匿名。
In SpaceX’s deal announced Monday, Elon Musk’s company is buying chips from Nvidia, backed by a lease with Apollo Global Management Inc. Goldman worked as the structuring agent, while funds managed by its asset manager committed money to the deal. The deal, which is separate from the Nvidia partnership, came together after the bank received a call from SpaceX months ago, according to a separate person familiar with the matter, who also asked not to be named discussing non-public information.
6月,高盛担任SpaceX创纪录首次公开募股(IPO)的牵头簿记管理人,在资深银行家Dan Dees、Kim Posnett、David Ludwig和Susie Scher多年关系经营后,高盛从中赚取1亿美元费用。
In June, Goldman was the lead bookrunner of SpaceX’s record-setting IPO, for which it was paid $100 million in fees after years of relationship building by senior bankers Dan Dees, Kim Posnett, David Ludwig and Susie Scher.
彭博新闻社本月初报道,高盛还从为其富裕客户安排的早期投资相关激励费用中,额外获得数亿美元收入。
The bank also reaped hundreds of millions of dollars more from incentive fees tied to early investments it helped arrange for its wealthy clients, Bloomberg News reported earlier this month.
高盛还是谷歌母公司Alphabet Inc.超过800亿美元股权发行方案的顾问,这是有史以来最大规模发行之一。该交易的关键银行家Posnett和Yasmine Coupal,也主导了周一宣布的Meta交易。
Goldman was also an adviser to Google parent Alphabet Inc. on its more than $80 billion package of equity offerings, one of the largest of all time. Its key bankers on that deal, Posnett and Yasmine Coupal, also drove the Meta deal announced Monday.
去年,高盛组建了一个资本解决方案部门,由 Pete Lyon 和 Mahesh Saireddy 领导,旨在帮助该行调动其各项业务——从资产管理、投资银行甚至高盛的交易业务——以便为企业构建大型融资方案。
Last year, Goldman formed a capital solutions group, led by Pete Lyon and Mahesh Saireddy, to help the bank tap its various businesses — from its asset manager, to its investment bank and even Goldman’s trading operations — as it constructs large financing packages for companies.
“我们感觉自己正处于这一投资超级周期的中心位置,”高盛总裁 John Waldron 5 月表示。
“We feel like we sit right in the center of this investment super cycle,” Goldman President John Waldron said in May.