Nvidia Pours Billions Into Poolside to Build Top-Tier Open-Source AI

Nvidia is investing $6 billion to license Poolside's AI technology plus another $1 billion in equity, valuing the startup at $12 billion. The deal aims to build world-class open-weight models challenging both US and Chinese frontier labs, with Ollama also joining the effort.

2026-08-23 ~ 2026-08-23 · 3 related posts

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