SOURCES: Poolside Strikes $6 Billion Licensing Deal with Nvidia & Raises $1 Billion for Remaining Company at $12 Billion Valuation

Nvidia pays $6B to license AI models from Poolside, invests $1B in the startup

Nvidia licenses Poolside's code models for $6B and invests $1B equity ($12B valuation), hiring 109 engineers. The deal consolidates AI developer tools into Nvidia's stack; the chip vendor now owns the foundation-model-to-copilot layer for software engineering.