Nvidia pours $6B into Poolside deal to boost open models
Nvidia is reportedly spending $6 billion to license Poolside's 'model factory' technology non-exclusively and hire its 109 employees, aiming to build one of the world's strongest open-weight AI models and challenge rivals like DeepSeek while fueling compute demand.
2026-08-25 ~ 2026-08-26 · 4 related posts
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