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Oracle (ORCL) and CoreWeave (CRWV) supported OpenAI on Tuesday after the Wall Street Journal revealed that the AI developer had recently fallen short of user and sales goals, rekindling worries about excessive spending in the industry.

Shares of companies that partnered with the company plummeted following the report, indicating that OpenAI’s business was slowing. Oracle, a major software company, and CoreWeave, a provider of data centers, both experienced closures of about 4% and 5%, respectively

Oracle wrote, “We’re incredibly excited about our partnership with OpenAI and remain focused on building and delivering the capacity they need to support rapidly growing demand.” 

CoreWeave expressed a similar sentiment that it had other partners. A CoreWeave representative stated, “OpenAI is a terrific partner, but not our only one.” The company has an “expanding set of customers like Meta Platforms, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Perplexity AI, Jane Street,

OpenAI has been on a spending binge due to CEO Sam Altman’s hasty acquisition of processing power. The missed metrics have rekindled concerns about the company’s rising costs amid intensifying competition.

The report comes at a crucial time because the company was reportedly preparing to go public this year. With commitments totaling $122 billion at $852 billion, OpenAI announced last month that it had closed its most recent funding round. That is more than the $110 billion the company reported raising in February, when its valuation was $730 billion.