Poolside

"Poolside's models are great. Good new American lab, building interesting coding models that are very small but highly effective, and they're building a lot of useful tools for accessing them. Good team."

Chamath Palihapitiya

mentioned

"Hugging Face, Poolside, and Laguna — very solid product that you're now acquiring."

Jason Lemkin

mentioned

"The Poolside thing should be a little bit haunting. Not that a $7 billion exit is so terrible. That memo was chilling — it's like we couldn't raise the round. This was a great team with proven leader, very strong CTO, very strong leadership, had t..."

"We're seeing poolside being bought and a lot of the employees moving over to Nvidia. $12 billion rumored price. How the hell do we put a price tag on that?"

"He did like one of these aqua-hire deals with Poolside for 6 billion total. If you don't know Poolside, they make the coding model Laguna. So now Nvidia has the place where developers and hackers go."

Emad Mostaque

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"Poolside is a company — the former CTO of GitHub, Issa Kant, and others. They originally wanted to create a coding model, then moved to an open-source model and model factory called Lagona that outperformed Thinking Machine's Inkling model when it..."

"There's five open source American contenders. Let's see if I can name them all. RC, Reflection, Mistral in the West, Poolside, Thinking Machines."