For engineering teams building in-house coding agents, Poolside is an open-weight foundation-model company offering Laguna S, a 118B frontier-class model, and Laguna XS, a 33B on-device model, both trained for agentic software development.
Presence & Market Position
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Poolside is positioning itself as the open-weight alternative in the frontier coding-model race: its own homepage messaging has narrowed over the past several months from a broad 'fastest path to AGI runs through software' framing to a specific pitch around 'open-weight agentic coding models,' anchored by the cloud-scale Laguna S and on-device Laguna XS lines. Conversation about the company sits inside the open-versus-closed-model debate and the broader argument over sovereign, locally run AI, with the company's own voice part of that conversation rather than only third-party commentary. Its footprint in the GTM-specific conversation is still early relative to its standing as a model lab.
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Business Profile
Poolside was founded in 2023 to build foundation models purpose-built for agentic software development, backed by investors including NVIDIA and Bain Capital Ventures, with total funding of roughly $626 million. The company has grown to about 350 people and operates in the open-weight lane of the model market, publishing its training approach in detail rather than keeping it proprietary. Its focus through 2026 has been shipping and iterating its Laguna model family: a frontier-scale version for cloud deployment and a smaller one built to run on-device, with homepage messaging updated repeatedly as new versions ship. The company continues to recruit applied researchers and engineers to extend that work.
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Poolside ships its Laguna models behind an OpenAI-compatible completions API, so agent frameworks built for that standard can point at Laguna with a base-URL and key change. The company has released pool, a terminal-based coding agent, and documents a hierarchical AGENTS.md system that lets instructions cascade from personal to project to nested-directory scope, so an agent adapts to whatever codebase it's working in — aimed at making Laguna a drop-in model for existing agent tooling rather than a closed product.
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