24 August 2026
Nvidia licenses Poolside AI technology for $6 billion
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- Nvidia is paying $6 billion to license model-development technology from Poolside, a startup that builds open-weight models, which means freely available AI systems anyone can download and modify.
- Nvidia is also investing $1 billion in Poolside at a $12 billion valuation and absorbing over 100 of its engineers into Nvidia's Nemotron team, which develops AI models.
