AI NEWSLatest AI NewsArticleNVIDIA Teams Up with Poolside to Strengthen Open-Source AI, Targeting Frontier Players Such as DeepSeek and OpenAIPublished in Latest AI NewsTime :Aug 26, 2026Read :2minuteAccording to reports, NVIDIA is investing 6 billion dollars to build one of the most powerful open-source artificial intelligence models in the world. According to the Wall Street Journal, NVIDIA will obtain a technology license from Poolside and allocate more than 100 employees to the Nemotron project.In addition, NVIDIA will make an additional 1 billion dollar investment in Poolside, which has a pre-investment valuation of 12 billion dollars. Its goal is to challenge leading Chinese open-source AI companies such as DeepSeek and Kimi, while directly competing with U.S. cutting-edge labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. Open source is seen as an important direction for future development, and NVIDIA’s move further highlights its strategic investment in the field of open-source models.