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Poolside
Company blog · poolside.ai/blogai
Poolside is the company blog at poolside.ai, writing about ai. Since 2024, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Poolside Desktop Assistant, for macOS”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Poolside is a foundation model company bringing intelligence to everywhere work gets done. Our mission is to drive abundance for humanity by creating artificial general intelligence.
Most-linked posts?
- Poolside Desktop Assistant, for macOS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-07-28
- Laguna S 2.13 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-07-21
- Laguna XS.2 and M.12 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-28
- Project Horizon: Why we're building a 2 gigawatt AI campus in Texas2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-15
- Laguna M.1/XS.2 Technical Report [pdf]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-26
- Poolside Announces $500M fundraise to make progress towards AGI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-02
- Building Towards AGI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-24
What Hacker News says?
> This is science fiction, these models don't have access to their own weights. The models are being used to train, and improve the infrastructure for training, other models [0][1]. Several RL techniques rely on using the currently-being-trained weights as part of their process. I really would not take "don't have access" as a given, especially during the training phase. > What would be a lot more scary is a model a…
Comment linking /blog/introducing-laguna-s-2-1
on “OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident”Submitted Laguna XS.2 and M.1 as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI Google News searched Poolside and found this: https://techfundingnews.com/nvidia-prepares-up-to-1b-investm... >Poolside operates across the US and Paris, focusing on coding automation tailored for government and defence clients. >The company is also working on bold infrastructure expansion. Earlier this month, Poolside partnered with CoreWeave to build one of the largest data centres in the US under an initiative…
Comment linking /blog/announcing-project-horizon
on “Nvidia to invest up to $1B in AI startup Poolside”Submitted Laguna S 2.1 as a story · 8 points
HN discussionDesigner @ Poolside here. Thank you for all the feedback – specifically we rebuilt all the eval charts to be clearer. https://poolside.ai/blog/laguna-a-deeper-dive
Comment linking /blog/laguna-a-deeper-dive
on “Laguna XS.2 and M.1”Submitted The future of software is AI, the future of AI is software as a story · 7 points
HN discussionWe got a lot of feedback about this. We've just pushed new chart components live across the site – thanks. https://poolside.ai/blog/laguna-a-deeper-dive
Comment linking /blog/laguna-a-deeper-dive
on “Laguna XS.2 and M.1”Submitted Poolside Announces $500M fundraise to make progress towards AGI as a story · 5 points
HN discussion"What we've done in this model is not necessarily add more intelligence, but improve the behaviors that lead to a more capable model: more verification, less taking things for granted, not declaring victory early, and being more persistent.” + https://poolside.ai/assets/laguna/laguna-m1-xs2-technical-re...
Comment linking /assets/laguna/laguna-m1-xs2-technical-report.pdf
on “Laguna S 2.1”Submitted Laguna XS.2 and Laguna M.1 by Poolside as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe announcement post says they have a product that early customers are testing. https://www.poolside.ai/checkpoint/announcing-our-500-millio...
Comment linking /checkpoint/announcing-our-500-million-fundraise-to-make-progress-towards-agi
on “AI coding startup Poolside raises $500M from eBay, Nvidia and others”Submitted Project Horizon: Why we're building a 2 gigawatt AI campus in Texas as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMistral has the capability of training such models. Take a look at Poolside[1], they are claiming to pre-train their Laguna series of models on 4,096 NVIDIA H200 GPUs[2]. Mistral has approximately 13,800 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs, which are nearly 2x more efficient for training. The problem with Mistral is that they do not seem to have aligned incentives to train big open-weight models, even if the teams would like to. [1]:…
Comment linking /blog/introducing-laguna-s-2-1
on “Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation”Submitted Poolside Desktop Assistant, for macOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Towards AGI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The hidden engineering behind foundation model building as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Poolside Desktop Assistant, for macOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Poolside Desktop Assistant – multi harness ACP app for macOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Laguna M.1/XS.2 Technical Report [pdf] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Through the looking glass of benchmark hacking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI, your way: introducing the Poolside Platform as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tools of the Trade: C2C Activation Offloading on Grace Blackwell as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Poolside's Journey to AGI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our $500M fundraise to make progress towards AGI as a story · 1 points
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