Poolside
Thoughts from the team building the foundation models and platform redefining how software gets made—securely, intelligently, and at scale.
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- 22 from 7 Oct 2023 to 28 Jul 2026
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- monthly (11 in the last year)
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- company blog
2026 10
- → Introducing Poolside Desktop Assistant, for macOS Poolside Desktop Assistant is a macOS app for running multiple coding agents across projects and repositories. The Poolside Assistant extensions bring the same experience into VS Code and Visual Studio. 2026-07-28
- → Introducing Laguna S 2.1 Today we’re releasing Laguna S 2.1, a significant step forward in our development of models that pursue longer horizon work and make effective use of reasoning. 2026-07-21
- → Introducing Laguna XS 2.1 Today we're releasing Laguna XS 2.1, an upgraded version of our Laguna XS.2 model. 2026-07-02
- → Poolside on Dell: an efficient path for frontier AI inside your boundary Poolside running on Dell gives enterprises another path: frontier AI that runs inside their own boundary, closer to their data, with stronger governance, better performance, and more predictable economics. 2026-05-28
- → Long context update: Laguna XS.2 and M.1 Now serving our Laguna XS.2 and M.1 models at 256K context lengths. 2026-05-26
- → Through the looking glass of benchmark hacking Outlining some of the reward hacks we’ve encountered and what strategies we are exploring to resolve them. 2026-05-11
- → AI, your way: introducing the Poolside Platform Production-grade AI agents deployed inside your security boundary—with full auditability, governance, and no cloud compromise. 2026-05-05
- → Introducing Laguna XS.2 and Laguna M.1 We’re releasing two foundation models and two products into preview today. 2026-04-28
- → Laguna XS.2 and M.1: A Deeper Dive We've released the first two models in the Laguna family, Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2, alongside the runtime we use to train and operate agents, available through two product experiences in research preview. 2026-04-28
- → Tools of the Trade: C2C Activation Offloading on Grace Blackwell We demonstrate the potential of NVIDIA's NVLink C2C on Grace-based superchips as a high-performance alternative to selective activation checkpointing. By offloading MLP activations to host memory during training, we achieve a 6–13% t
2025 9
- → Announcing the acquisition of Fern Labs We’re excited to announce that Poolside acquired Fern Labs, a London-based forward‑deployed research engineering company behind Bridge, a multi‑agent orchestration layer built for high‑stakes production environments. 2025-11-18
- → Enabling the Agentic Enterprise with Redpanda Our strategic partnership with Redpanda's Agentic Data Plane 2025-10-28
- → The finishing touches Using the Model Factory and its components to conduct post-training at scale 2025-08-25
- → The carrier and the beacon Running inference and evaluations inside the Model Factory 2025-08-14
- → Designing a world-class code execution environment We present the details of our code execution platform 2025-08-12
- → Titan, the Model Factory's furnace We present details of our distributed training codebase, known as Titan. 2025-08-07
- → Gathering and processing raw materials for the Model Factory A deep dive into the Model Factory’s data pipelines 2025-07-29
- → Our vision: Research When we founded Poolside in San Francisco in April 2023, the narrative in the industry was that all we needed to reach AGI was to scale up language modelling. 2025-07-24
- → The hidden engineering behind foundation model building Introducing the Model Factory 2025-07-17
2024 2
- → Unveiling Poolside's first-party partnership with AWS Today, we’re thrilled to announce a transformative partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that establishes Poolside as a first-party AWS offering. 2024-12-04
- → Announcing our $500 million fundraise to make progress towards AGI AI has the potential to drive abundance for humanity in the 21st century at a magnitude larger than the last 100 years of technological progress. 2024-10-02