Nvidia (NVDA) plans to use a $6B deal with AI startup Poolside to build open-weight AI models, one to compete with China’s DeepSeek and Kimi K3,...

Nvidia agreed to pay $6 billion to license Poolside AI's Model Factory and invested $1 billion in equity, valuing the AI coding startup at $12

Nvidia is paying $6 billion for software that builds AI models from the startup Poolside, and it wants to bring on 109 employees.