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 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…
Poolside AI, an artificial intelligence model-building startup, has struck a non-exclusive licensing deal with Nvidia for $6 billion and raised $1 billion in new investment at a $12 billion pre-money …
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 AI's Laguna XS model, a small local LLM, performed well in refactoring Rust code via OpenCode, making relatively few errors and handling tool calls correctly except for escaped quotes. The 20…