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Latent SpaceArticle17d ago

[AINews] Poolside gets $12B reverse-execuhire to NVIDIA; founders stay for $1B, employees go for $6B, Infraco scaling to 7GW neocloud

Execuhires dressed up as acquisitions are becoming the default exit mechanism for AI labs that can't ship a defensible product, and NVIDIA absorbing a coding-model shop while scaling gigawatt-class compute says more about NVIDIA's ambitions than Poolside's. For investors, watch whether this pattern becomes the standard off-ramp for mid-tier foundation model bets that never found a moat. For builders, another reminder that the model layer below the frontier three is thinning fast.

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Latent SpaceArticle2mo ago

Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI

The interesting claim is efficiency: a much smaller MoE reportedly outperforming a model an order of magnitude larger, which if true says more about training methodology than raw compute spend. For builders and investors, this is a data point on whether the 'just scale bigger' era is giving way to a 'scale smarter' era, worth reading the interview for the specifics rather than taking the headline claim at face value.

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