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Capital flow drill-down

Money in, revenue out: the full breakdown.

Issue 04 · Week 20 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, xAI~$52BPrior ~$52B · Flat~$48BPrior ~$45B · Up0.9Anthropic in talks to raise at least $30B at a >$900B valuation (Bloomberg May 12), target close end-May, on April annualized run-rate revenue of ~$30B — boards on Anthropic-dependent contracts should underwrite ~30 months counterparty runway conditional on close; investors should treat the close (not the headline valuation) as the binary read of the week.
Hyperscaler-HostedMicrosoft Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, Meta, Oracle~$58BPrior ~$58B · Flat~$15BPrior ~$13B · Up0.26OpenAI and Microsoft formalized a $38B cumulative cap on Microsoft's revenue-share payments through 2030 on May 12 — the first hard ceiling on any hyperscaler's AI revenue-capture; architects building on Azure-OpenAI should plan for Microsoft pushing native MAI-line and direct API products into more enterprise workloads through 2027, and operators should expect Azure-OpenAI commercial terms to harden, not loosen, post-cap.
NeocloudsCoreWeave, Nscale, IREN, Crusoe, Lambda, Applied Digital, Nebius~$30BPrior ~$28B · Up~$3.0BPrior ~$3.0B · Flat0.10Nscale closed $790M committed senior debt (+$790M accordion) from five Nordic banks for the Narvik, Norway expansion on May 11 — operators evaluating non-CoreWeave neocloud capacity now have a fresh credit comp; investors should treat this as the template for second-tier neocloud refinancings, not a one-off, and watch the accordion draw cadence as a real-time demand signal.
On-Prem / HybridEnterprise GPU clusters, sovereign and national programs, Cisco / Dell / HPE~$45BPrior ~$42B · UpIndirectPrior Indirect · Flatn/aCisco Q3 FY26 raised FY26 AI infrastructure orders guide from $5B to $9B and AI revenue guide from $3B to $4B on May 13, with Q3 AI orders of $1.9B vs $600M YoY (~$300M from non-hyperscaler neocloud / sovereign / enterprise) — architects should re-baseline enterprise AI fabric demand from a 2027-2028 thesis to a real 2026-print risk; operators should expect lead-time pressure on Silicon One, Nexus 9000, and Hypershield SKUs.

Category

Frontier Labs.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI

Capital in
~$52Bvs ~$52B · Flat
Revenue out
~$48Bvs ~$45B · Up
Burn / rev
0.9Lower means more capital out than in.

The read

Anthropic's $30B / >$900B-valuation round (Bloomberg May 12) progressed toward a target end-May close on top of $30B+ April ARR; the round is unsigned. OpenAI launched a $4B+ Deployment Company with TPG, Advent, Bain Capital, and Brookfield (May 11), folding in UK consultancy Tomoro for ~150 deployment engineers — a structural shift toward embedded enterprise services on top of model APIs. Capital-in holds at the W19 level since the Anthropic round is not closed; revenue-out ticks up as labs absorb a services-and-deployment cost layer alongside compute and the Anthropic ARR continues compounding.

This week's transactions

Named transactions and source context.
DateTransactionAmountSource
May 11OpenAI Deployment Company launch with TPG / Advent / Bain Capital / Brookfield (>$4B initial commitment, 19-firm consortium); Tomoro acquisition for ~150 enterprise AI engineers$4B+PYMNTS, Yahoo Finance, TheNextWeb
May 12Anthropic in talks to raise at least $30B at >$900B valuation; target close end-May; April ARR ~$30B$30B (target)Bloomberg (primary)

Trend across recent issues

W17W18W19W20
Capital in
$50B, $52B, $52B, $52B
Revenue out
$30B, $35B, $45B, $48B

Category

Hyperscaler-Hosted.

Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, Meta, Oracle

Capital in
~$58Bvs ~$58B · Flat
Revenue out
~$15Bvs ~$13B · Up
Burn / rev
0.26Lower means more capital out than in.

The read

No major hyperscaler earnings inside W20 (NVIDIA Q1 FY27 print expected W21 May 20). The structural item: OpenAI and Microsoft set a $38B cumulative cap on Microsoft's revenue-share payments through 2030 (May 12), completing the renegotiation thread that opened in late 2025 and freeing OpenAI to layer Anthropic-style multi-cloud commitments. W18 hyperscaler aggregate capex range $695-725B holds; no fresh capex resets. Cisco's Q3 FY26 AI orders guide raise ($5B to $9B annual) is the strongest enterprise-pull signal of the week and lands as a leading indicator for hyperscaler tail demand.

This week's transactions

Named transactions and source context.
DateTransactionAmountSource
May 12OpenAI-Microsoft cumulative revenue-share cap formalized at $38B through 2030$38B capThe Hindu / Reuters-derived, ResultSense

Trend across recent issues

W17W18W19W20
Capital in
$48B, $58B, $58B, $58B
Revenue out
$10B, $13B, $13B, $15B

Category

Neoclouds.

CoreWeave, Nscale, IREN, Crusoe, Lambda, Applied Digital, Nebius

Capital in
~$30Bvs ~$28B · Up
Revenue out
~$3.0Bvs ~$3.0B · Flat
Burn / rev
0.10Lower means more capital out than in.

The read

Nscale closed $790M committed senior debt from ABN AMRO, DNB, Eksfin, Nordea, and SEB for the Narvik, Norway expansion on May 11, with a matching $790M uncommitted accordion option — taking the company's funding stack to ~$4.2B since February and Norway's largest AI infra investment, with ~30k Rubin GPUs targeted. Alpha Compute closed a small $32.2M two-year lease with an unnamed 'leading frontier AI lab' on May 12 (504 B200s in Canada). CoreWeave's Q1 print and 10-Q both landed inside W19, so the headline neocloud watchlist resolved before W20 opened — capital-in drift is led by Nscale.

This week's transactions

Named transactions and source context.
DateTransactionAmountSource
May 11Nscale: $790M committed senior debt + $790M uncommitted accordion (Narvik, Norway; ABN AMRO / DNB / Eksfin / Nordea / SEB; ~30k Rubin GPUs; total stack ~$4.2B)$790M (+$790M accordion)Nscale press release, Tech.eu, FinSMEs
May 12Alpha Compute: $32.2M two-year lease with 'leading frontier AI lab' (504 NVIDIA B200 GPUs, Canada); ~$16.1M ARR$32MMarkets Insider / Business Insider (PR-led, single source)

Trend across recent issues

W17W18W19W20
Capital in
$15B, $18B, $28B, $30B
Revenue out
$1.6B, $2B, $3B, $3B

Category

On-Prem / Hybrid.

Enterprise GPU clusters, sovereign and national programs, Cisco / Dell / HPE

Capital in
~$45Bvs ~$42B · Up
Revenue out
Indirectvs Indirect · Flat
Burn / rev
n/aLower means more capital out than in.

The read

Cisco Q3 FY26 (May 13) printed record $15.8B revenue (+12% YoY, beating $15.56B consensus) and raised FY26 AI orders guide 80% to $9B (from $5B) and AI revenue guide to $4B (from $3B); Q3 AI orders were $1.9B with ~$300M from non-hyperscaler neocloud, sovereign, and enterprise customers against a $3B pipeline. Applied Materials Q2 FY26 (May 14) printed a record $7.91B (+11% YoY) with record 50.0% non-GAAP gross margin and guided semicap equipment to grow >30% in calendar 2026 — upstream validation of AI capex velocity. UK signed a £175M / 10-year sovereign data-and-AI deal with Quantexa for HMRC (May 14); Canada-TELUS BC Sovereign AI Factory announced May 11 (60K NVIDIA GPUs by 2032).

This week's transactions

Named transactions and source context.
DateTransactionAmountSource
May 13Cisco Q3 FY26: record $15.8B revenue (+12% YoY); FY26 AI orders guide raised $5B to $9B; FY26 AI revenue guide raised $3B to $4B; Q3 AI orders $1.9B vs $600M YoY+$4B FY26 AI orders raiseCisco PR Newswire (primary), CNBC, FT.com data feed
May 14Applied Materials Q2 FY26: record $7.91B revenue (+11% YoY); record 50.0% non-GAAP gross margin; calendar-2026 semicap growth guide >30%$7.9B Q2 printApplied Materials IR press release (primary)
May 14HMRC selects Quantexa for £175M / 10-year sovereign data-and-AI transformation partnership£175M (~$230M)Quantexa announcement via Finanznachrichten
May 11TELUS + Government of Canada: BC Sovereign AI Factory three-site cluster (60K+ NVIDIA GPUs, 150 MW by 2032)Federal program funding (undisclosed)TELUS, CNW Newswire, CBC

Trend across recent issues

W17W18W19W20
Capital in
$42B, $42B, $42B, $45B
Revenue out
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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