The U.K. AI Security Institute (AISI) has appointed Henry de Zoete as its new director, a former advisor to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who helped conceive the institute in 2023 and organize the first …
Nvidia is reportedly paying $6 billion for a non-exclusive license to Poolside's Model Factory, offering jobs to 109 employees, and investing an additional $1 billion in Poolside at a $12 billion pre-…
NVIDIA announced a $6 billion deal to license AI technology from startup Poolside and a separate $1 billion investment, valuing Poolside at $12 billion pre-money. The deal brings over 100 Poolside eng…
Nvidia (NVDA) signed a $6 billion licensing deal with AI startup Poolside to build a powerful open-weight AI model and is considering an investment in AI service provider Perplexity, according to Inve…
Nvidia has informed customers of price increases exceeding 15% for AI-related products, attributed to rising memory chip costs, according to CNBC. The hikes will affect systems scheduled for shipment …
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 struck a $6 billion licensing deal with AI coding startup Poolside that includes a $1 billion investment at a $12 billion pre-money valuation and job offers for 109 employees, without formally …
Nvidia is reportedly paying $6 billion to license coding models from Poolside, a startup that builds AI coding assistants trained from scratch, according to a post questioning the deal's rationale. Th…
NVIDIA is paying $6 billion to investors in Poolside for a licensing deal to access its open model 'factory', while offering jobs to 109 employees but excluding the founders, who will raise $1 billion…
Nvidia is paying $6 billion to license Poolside's 'Model Factory' software and extend job offers to 109 employees, according to an investor letter first reported by Newcomer. Nvidia is also investing …
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…
Modelplane v0.3 adds Vultr as an inference cluster provider, supports the Anthropic Messages API end-to-end for tools like Claude Code, improves multi-node scheduling, and introduces three new model r…
Kimi K3, a ~2.8T parameter open-weight coding model from Moonshot AI, ranks first on Frontend Code Arena with a score of 1,679, ahead of the closed Fable 5 at 1,631, and its weights were released on H…
AI has become a commodity, with DeepSeek V4 Flash costing $0.13 per million input tokens and $0.26 per million output tokens via OpenRouter, and TIME is serving AI crawlers a stripped-down markdown ve…
Mozilla's llamafile v0.10.5 release adds support for two large local models: the 6GB Ternary Bonsai 27B and Poolside's 118B Laguna-S-2.1 coding MoE, by syncing with a more recent llama.cpp core. The u…
Eigen Labs' lead research engineer Gajesh Naik said on August 1st that a public network of developers and AI agents made Poolside's Laguna XS 2.1 inference 138.7% faster on Apple Silicon, four days af…
Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 model now has 10x more capacity on Vercel's AI Gateway, applying to both the paid version `poolside/laguna-s-2.1` and the free version `poolside/laguna-s-2.1-free`, enabling hi…
Poolside released a macOS desktop app, Poolside Desktop Assistant, that runs multiple coding agents across projects and repositories, built on the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) to support agents from Cl…
Anthropic released Fable-lite, a smaller version of its AI model, while Block introduced Buzz, a new product, according to Tom Krazit's Runtime newsletter. Google unveiled a new security model, Poolsi…
A new open-source benchmark called CVE-Bench evaluates large language model agents on fixing real-world security vulnerabilities by running them inside sandboxed Docker containers and scoring them aga…