Artificial Intelligence · 21.08.2026, 09:16 UTC
[AINews] Poolside gets $12B reverse-execuhire to NVIDIA; founders stay for $1B, employees go for $6B, Infraco scaling to 7GW neocloud
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| Kategorie | Artificial Intelligence |
| Quelle | Latent Space ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 21.08.2026 UTC |
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Less than a month ago we had just featured Poolside’s Model Factory with Eiso Kant on the pod (following our Paper Club coverage):It appears that Jensen really, really liked Poolside too, as he went from investor to doing licensing their factory and hiring 109 of their employees:Unless things changed drastically, this accounts for the overwhelming majority of the technical Poolside employees:Eiso Kant [01:52:31]: We are hiring on every possible role in applied research and engineering in the company, from training all the way to evals to post-training architecture. Like, we are still in a world where, individuals can have massive impact. And I think our pitch to join us —I think we are one of the places where it’s the highest ratio to individual to impact, Right? Less than 70 people built this model. Less than 115 between engineering and researchers, like, together did this effort, and that’s a very broad definition ‘cause I put myself in the 115 list.As the founders say, this is “not an acquisition and not an acquihire”:We’ve been calling the Windsurf-Google and Character-Google and Scale-Meta and Instacart-OpenAI deals execuhires because usually the executives go leaving the employees with a rich payout but holding the company remaining, but this is a first time it is happening the other way around. The action amounts to founders pivoting the company extremely hard to SOMETHING, and finding an EXTREMELY comfortable golden parachute for investors and employees to continue on with the original mission or stay aboard for the new pivot:For the last 3 1/2 years we’ve been …