NVIDIA Acquires Poolside for $6 Billion: Buying a Model Factory and Recruiting 109 People
2026-08-23 11:12:04
According to CoinMeta, NVIDIA will pay $6 billion to AI startup Poolside to obtain a non-exclusive license for its model development system, and plans to issue offer to the 109 employees involved in the development of Laguna models. The founding team of Poolside will continue to remain in place, and the company will maintain independent operations. Poolside's model factory is the infrastructure for developing AI models, covering data processing, training, reinforcement learning, and evaluation. More than 100 Poolside employees, after joining NVIDIA, will directly participate in the research and development of Nemotron's open-weight models, with the goal of launching a version that can compete with the strongest and most advanced models within the next year.
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