Nvidia Invests $7 Billion in Poolside for Coding Model Factory

Nvidia has struck a major deal with Poolside, the coding-model company. Under the agreement, Nvidia will pay $6 billion for a non-exclusive license to Poolside’s Model Factory — the platform behind the Laguna family of open-weight coding models — and will invest a further $1 billion at a $12 billion pre-money valuation. The transaction gives Nvidia deeper exposure to the software and model layer that sits on top of its GPUs, particularly for software engineering and agentic coding use cases. Poolside gains a large capital injection and a powerful distribution partner. The size of the commitment underscores how strategic coding models have become to the broader AI infrastructure stack.