{"city":"San Francisco","name":"Poolside","slug":"poolside","facts":[{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"senior_hire","value":"Philip Drury joined Poolside as chief investment officer","source":"Poolside"},{"date":"2026-09-09","type":"partnership","value":"Nvidia committed $7 billion to Poolside for open-weight model software and engineering talent","source":"Semiconductor Engineering"},{"date":"2026-09-03","type":"partnership","value":"Nvidia struck a $6 billion deal with Poolside to develop open models","source":"TechCrunch"},{"date":"2026-04-02","type":"setback","value":"CoreWeave and Poolside mutually terminated the Project Horizon agreement","source":"mlq.ai and datacenterdynamics.com"},{"date":"2026-04-01","type":"setback","value":"The parallel $2 billion Series C fell apart","source":"tech-insider.org citing the Financial Times"},{"date":"2025-10-31","type":"partnership","value":"NVIDIA was preparing to invest up to $1 billion in Poolside","source":"techfundingnews.com"}],"peers":[],"stage":null,"state":"California","aliases":["Poolside AI","Malibu","Project Horizon"],"country":"United States","domains":[{"why":"Poolside is developing open models and open-weight model software, supported by major NVIDIA partnerships and funding.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"member","layer":null,"total":54,"domain":"AI Core","scores":{"gate_ne":["technology","firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":8,"firepower":4,"commercial":4,"deployment":6,"production":2,"technology":6},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-10-28","header":"Nvidia acquired Poolside for $6 billion after its Laguna release.","outlet":"Peter H. Diamandis"},{"date":"2026-10-28","header":"Poolside raised $200 million with French government support.","outlet":"Peter H. Diamandis"},{"date":"2026-09-14","header":"Philip Drury joined Poolside as chief investment officer.","outlet":"Poolside"},{"date":"2026-09-09","header":"Nvidia committed $7 billion to Poolside for open-weight model software and engineering talent.","outlet":"Semiconductor Engineering"},{"date":"2026-09-05","header":"Nvidia bought Hugging Face and Poolside for $18 billion.","outlet":"Peter H. Diamandis"},{"date":"2026-09-04","header":"Blue Origin is expanding New Glenn production capacity through Project Horizon at Rocket Park.","outlet":"NASASpaceflight"}],"website":"poolside.ai","category":"AI · Models & applications","categories":[{"name":"Open-weight labs","domain":"AI Core","parent":"AI · Models & applications"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-10-30T10:01:08.449+00:00","facts_total":10,"positioning":"Poolside sells AI coding automation to enterprises with 5,000 or more developers, including banks and defence contractors, on a model that is the opposite of generic API access: for each customer it spins up a dedicated training environment inside the client own infrastructure, ingests their codebase and development history, and fine-tunes a model that stays behind their security boundary. AWS Bedrock provides a managed alternative. Behind that sits an AGI ambition and, until April 2026, a vertical-integration bet, and the record is now dominated by the unwinding of that bet. In October 2025 Poolside announced Project Horizon, a 2 gigawatt AI campus on 568 acres in West Texas, with CoreWeave as anchor tenant on a 15-year lease for the first 250 MW plus an option on 500 MW more, contracted to deliver over 40,000 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 GPUs from December 2025. Simultaneously it was raising a USD 2 billion Series C at a USD 14 billion pre-money valuation with NVentures slated to anchor up to USD 1 billion. By 2026-04-02 both collapsed: CoreWeave exited citing an USD 8.5 billion loan facility enabling flexible multi-partner leasing, and the Financial Times reported the round had fallen apart on investor concerns that Poolside could not train frontier-competitive models against Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind. Momentum scores 1 accordingly.","sub_category":"Open-weight labs","signals_total":27,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/poolside","title":"Poolside · ai core, San Francisco, California, United States · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Poolside is developing open models and open-weight model software, supported by major NVIDIA partnerships and funding. AI Core member (score 54) 27 signals and 10 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}