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Poolside
AI Market Atlas · by Pro Pluribus
Paris · San Francisco
Coding-focused model lab. NVIDIA is paying $6B to license its training stack and investing $1B at a $12B valuation.
What it offers
Main offerings
- Poolside models
- Foundation models built for coding and software agents.
- Model factory
- Its training stack, licensed non-exclusively to NVIDIA for US open-weight models.
Recent news
- Nvidia to pay Poolside $6B license, invest $1BThe deal makes Poolside a core supplier to Nvidia's US open-weight model effort; Nvidia will also offer jobs to over 100 staff.Bloomberg ↗
- Poolside raises $1B at $12B pre-money alongside Nvidia licenseThe company says it will keep operating independently with a much larger balance sheet.Newcomer ↗
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