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Poolside
An AI startup building open coding models small enough to run on your own machine.
Poolside develops AI models for writing code, and pitches them as the Western answer to strong open models from China. Its Laguna line is notable for being small and openly downloadable while keeping pace with much larger systems, so capable coding help can run on hardware you own rather than a rented cloud.
Its stated edge is less about raw intelligence than work habits: teaching a model to verify its own output, avoid declaring victory early, and keep going, which turns out to matter a lot for long coding tasks.
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