[CoreWeave and NVIDIA-backed Vast Data sign $1.17 billion AI agreement] Foresight News reports, according to Reuters, CoreWeave and NVIDIA-backed Vast Data have signed a $1.17 billion AI agreement. Following the news, CoreWeave's pre-market U.S. stock surged nearly 4%. Under the agreement, CoreWeave will use Vast as the primary data platform for its cloud infrastructure, which provides customers with access to graphics processing units (GPUs) for training and running artificial intelligence models. Vast stated that such contracts typically last three to five years but declined to disclose detailed financial terms.