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Poolside

AI foundation model company

poolside.ai

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded year: 2023
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 50–350
Industry: IT Services & Consulting

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Latest news about Poolside

In short: Poolside accelerated its AI coding agent capabilities by launching the 118B Laguna S 2.1 model and securing major infrastructure partnerships.

Company announcements

July 28 Poolside

Poolside introduces a desktop assistant for macOS coding agents

It enables running multiple coding agents across projects, supporting various models and agent harnesses.

July 2 Poolside

Poolside releases upgraded Laguna XS 2.1 model

The 33B MoE model improves SWE-bench Multilingual by 5.4 points to 63.1% and features a more permissive OpenMDW-1.1 license.

May 28 Poolside

Poolside announces deployment on Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA

The partnership enables secure, on-premises frontier AI for regulated industries with validated automation and control.

May 6 Poolside

Poolside partners with Baseten for model inference

They achieve low TTFT latencies: 146ms P50 for XS.2, 605ms for M.1. Developers access Poolside-branded API in 7 weeks.

Media coverage

July 21 Techmeme

Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models

Iain Martin / Forbes: Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with...

June 24 Sifted

Records broken as eight European startups raised $1bn+ rounds in 2026

It’s an unprecedented cohort, overwhelmingly AI-native for one, and sovereign-heavy for the technology they develop.

April 28 Techmeme

US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2, a 33B-A3B-parameter MoE model, and Laguna M.1, a proprietary 225B-A23B-parameter MoE model

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2, a 33B-A3B-parameter MoE model, and Laguna M.1, a proprietary 225B-A23B-parameter MoE...

April 2 Financial Times

Poolside hunts data centre partners after CoreWeave deal falls through

AI start-up held talks with Google and other cloud providers in bid to revive ambitious 2-gigawatt Texas project...

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