Nvidia has agreed to pay $6 billion for a non-exclusive license to Poolside's AI model-development technology and offer jobs to 109 Poolside employees, aiming to build U.S. open-weight models as a dir…
Nvidia is centralizing the AI supply chain through a licensing-plus-hire strategy, most recently paying $6 billion for a non-exclusive license to Poolside AI's Model Factory and investing $1 billion a…
NVIDIA has hired 109 employees from AI startup Poolside in a $12 billion deal that the founders describe as 'not an acquisition and not an acquihire,' with founders staying for $1 billion and employee…
Nvidia has agreed to pay $6 billion to license AI models from Poolside AI and invest an additional $1 billion in equity, setting Poolside's pre-money valuation at $12 billion, a fourfold jump from las…
Neolab Laguna released Laguna S 2.1, a model that is cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash and outperforms V4 Pro, according to a Reddit user cited in the announcement. The model is approximately 10x smaller…
Poolside AI co-founder Eiso Kant says the company has built a Model Factory that can take a model from pre-training to release in eight weeks, running 10,000–20,000 experiments per month with fewer th…
Poolside released Laguna S 2.1 on July 21, 2026, an open-weight 118-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts coding model that scored 70.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 59.4% on SWE-Bench Pro, beating larger…
Poolside released Laguna S 2.1 on July 21st, an open-weight 118-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts coding model designed to run long-running software agents on user-controlled hardware. The model ac…