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title: "Nvidia Pays $6B for Poolside AI to Build US Open Weight Rival to DeepSeek"
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published_at: "2026-08-23T02:41:26.000Z"
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topics: ["nvidia","deepseek","open-source","llm"]
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summary: "More than 100 employees from startup Poolside will join Nvidia to develop the Nemotron open weight model family. The chipmaker is paying $6 billion to license the startup's technology and investing $1 billion at a $12 billion pre money valuation. The agreement aims to create a US based AI ecosystem to challenge Chinese models including Kimi and DeepSeek. Nvidia is betting that Nemotron can rival leading frontier models within one year, providing a lower cost, customizable alternative to closed systems from OpenAI and Anthropic."
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# Nvidia Pays $6B for Poolside AI to Build US Open Weight Rival to DeepSeek

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**Published:** 2026-08-23T02:41:26.000Z
**Category:** Industry
**Topics:** nvidia, deepseek, open\-source, llm

## Summary

More than 100 employees from startup Poolside will join Nvidia to develop the Nemotron open weight model family\. The chipmaker is paying $6 billion to license the startup's technology and investing $1 billion at a $12 billion pre money valuation\. The agreement aims to create a US based AI ecosystem to challenge Chinese models including Kimi and DeepSeek\. Nvidia is betting that Nemotron can rival leading frontier models within one year, providing a lower cost, customizable alternative to closed systems from OpenAI and Anthropic\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/nvidia-pays-6b-for-poolside-ai-to-build-us-open-weight-rival-to-deepseek-a90cabda>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/WSJ/status/2091315156466663843>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/wallstengine/status/2091323345195413517>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/MTSlive/status/2091334061931532597>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/StockSavvyShay/status/2091337819419738510>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/WSJ/status/2091349163543867862>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/FirstSquawk/status/2091379324654100825>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/Techmeme/status/2091367540534772219>)