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The chip giant stepped back from the AI Compute Partnership program last week, less than two months after announcing it in July

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Nvidia $NVDA has stepped away from a financing program under which it provided credit backing to AI cloud providers in return for a cut of their revenue, according to The Wall Street Journal. Nvidia employees raised alarms with current and potential customers about the risk of antitrust exposure.

Nvidia pulled the plug on the initiative just last week, fewer than two months after announcing it in July. The Journal reported that Nvidia has left open the possibility of restructuring or absorbing the initiative into a different effort down the line.