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Nvidia is paying $6 billion to license AI model software from startup Poolside

The chip designer will also invest $1 billion in Poolside and hire more than 100 of its engineers to work on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron models [...]

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American AI startup Poolside launches free, high-performing open model Laguna XS.2 for local agentic coding

The AI race lately has felt a bit like a game of tennis: first, Anthropic releases a new, pricey state-of-the-art proprietary model for general users (Claude Opus 4.7), then, a week or so later, its r [...]

Match Score: 604.91

venturebeat
Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size

Poolside, the San Francisco AI lab that has spent most of its three-year existence quietly selling coding models to governments and defense agencies, released its most capable model to date on Tuesday [...]

Match Score: 470.02

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Nvidia launches enterprise AI agent platform with Adobe, Salesforce, SAP among 17 adopters at GTC 2026

Jensen Huang walked onto the GTC stage Monday wearing his trademark leather jacket and carrying, as it turned out, the blueprints for a new kind of monopoly.The Nvidia CEO unveiled the Agent Toolkit, [...]

Match Score: 117.70

venturebeat
Nvidia introduces Vera Rubin, a seven-chip AI platform with OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta on board

Nvidia on Monday took the wraps off Vera Rubin, a sweeping new computing platform built from seven chips now in full production — and backed by an extraordinary lineup of customers that includes Ant [...]

Match Score: 101.26

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Kimi K3's full weights are here, but they're 'open' with a caveat: What enterprises should know

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, creators of the increasingly famous "Kimi K" family of powerful, open AI models, today released the full weights for its largest and most performant version y [...]

Match Score: 89.06

thenextweb
Nvidia pays Poolside $6bn to license its model factory and hire 109 staff

Nvidia has agreed to pay Poolside $6bn to license the software the startup used to build AI models, and to offer jobs to 109 of its staff. It is also investing $1bn in what remains, at a $12bn pre-mon [...]

Match Score: 81.42

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Nvidia's new open weights Nemotron 3 super combines three different architectures to beat gpt-oss and Qwen in throughput

Multi-agent systems, designed to handle long-horizon tasks like software engineering or cybersecurity triaging, can generate up to 15 times the token volume of standard chats — threatening their cos [...]

Match Score: 74.58

thenextweb
Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the open-weight coding model pitched as the West’s answer to DeepSeek and Qwen

Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding that the San Francisco startup says matches or exceeds models several times its size. The model u [...]

Match Score: 72.11

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Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 is a small open-weight coding model that punches well above its size

Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, its third coding model in three months. Rather than rely on raw scale, the company trained it to keep checking its work, revise failed approaches, and avoid giving [...]

Match Score: 67.24