Poolside

Organization

An AI coding startup that Nvidia acquired to build out its open-source developer toolchain.


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8/29/2026, 5:26:43 AM

Last Updated

8/29/2026, 5:33:05 AM

Research Retrieved

8/29/2026, 5:33:05 AM

Summary

Poolside (also known as Poolside AI) is an artificial intelligence company founded in early 2023 by Jason Warner and Eiso Kant. Headquartered in San Francisco with operations in Paris, Poolside specializes in developing foundation models and large language models for software engineering and coding applications. The company has rapidly scaled through significant venture rounds, including a $500 million Series B in October 2024 and substantial strategic backing and acquisition interest from Nvidia as part of Nvidia's push to secure the open-source developer ecosystem.

Research Data
Extracted Attributes
  • Founders

    Jason Warner, Eiso Kant

  • Industry

    Artificial Intelligence / Software Development

  • Valuation

    $3 billion (October 2024); up to $12 billion (October 2025)

  • Headquarters

    San Francisco, California, United States

  • Founding Date

    2023

  • Employee Count

    150 employees (as of December 2025)

  • Primary Products

    Coding Foundation Models, Laguna S 2.1, Generative AI for Software Engineering

  • Major Infrastructure

    Project Horizon (2-gigawatt AI data center campus in Pecos County, Texas)

Timeline
  • Poolside AI is founded by Jason Warner and Eiso Kant. (Source: Wikipedia)

    2023-01-01

  • Poolside raises $500 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital, DST Global, and eBay at a $3 billion valuation. (Source: Wikipedia)

    2024-10-01

  • Poolside begins Phase 1 of Project Horizon, a 2-gigawatt AI campus in Pecos County, Texas, and Nvidia announces up to $1 billion in funding / acquisition engagement. (Source: Wikipedia / Document d0c090f7-7e27-4f64-a83d-fd2cb253ba74)

    2025-10-01

  • Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model designed for software engineering applications. (Source: Wikipedia)

    2026-07-21

Poolside

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Web Search Results
  • Poolside | Spotify

    Poolside is the recording project of producer, songwriter and multi- instrumentalist Jeffrey Paradise. In 2011 Poolside set out to produce appropriately chill music for summer soirees, a light but danceable kind of music with sunny vibes and liquid rhythm that Paradise dubbed "Daytime Disco." Since then, Poolside has released four acclaimed albums – Pacific Standard Time (2012), Heat (2017), Low Season (2020) and this year’s Blame It All On Love (2023) – remixed countless high-profile acts such as Billy Idol, Jack Johnson & Milky Chance, DRAMA, Miami Horror, L'impératrice, Purple Disco Machine, Big Wild, Zoe and more. Poolside has also recently collaborated with Todd Edwards, NEIL FRANCES, Brijean, Foster The People and Buscabulla. Poolside’s fourth studio album 'Blame It All On Love' [...] Poolside’s fourth studio album 'Blame It All On Love' finds Paradise leaving the shallows and entering the depths of his own creative voice. Its 11 tracks are funky, soulful, laidback and full of hooks that elevate Poolside’s sound to poignant pop heights. The album’s many collaborators — Vansire, Panama, slenderbodies, MUNYA, Ora The Molecule, Ben Browning, Life On Planets & Mazy — bring both breadth and depth, pushing Poolside’s sound in new directions that stay true to Paradise’s taste and sensibilities. [...] Skip to main content 12,592,588 4:08 See more ## Artist pick Image 6 Image 7: Poolside Bedroom Eyes w/ Stevie Appleton Bedroom Eyes Single ## Discography Show all Popular releases Albums Singles and EPs Image 8 Bedroom Eyes Latest Release • Single Image 9 Pacific Standard Time 2012 • Album Image 10 Low Season 2020 • Album Image 11 Heat 2017 • Album Image 12 Leila (Poolside Remix) 2017 • Single Image 13 Getting There From Here (with Todd Edwards) 2020 • Single Image 14 Blame It All On Love 2023 • Album Image 15 Otherside 2025 • Single Image 16 Pull Together 2025 • Single Image 17 Around The Sun 2020 • Single ## Featuring Poolside Show all Image 18 This Is Poolside This is Poolside. The essential tracks, all in one playlist. Image 19

  • Definition & Meaning of "Poolside" in English

    What is a "poolside"? A poolside refers to the area around a swimming pool, typically where people can sit, relax, or socialize while being near the water.

  • Poolside AI - Wikipedia

    Poolside AI (or Poolside) is an American artificial intelligence company that develops large language models for computer software and coding applications. ## History [edit] Poolside AI was founded in early 2023 by Jason Warner, former CTO of GitHub, and Eiso Kant, a software entrepreneur. The company started with a work from home model and had employees in the United States, United Kingdom and France. The first phase of Poolside's Project Horizon, a 2-gigawatt artificial intelligence campus located in Pecos County, Texas, started in October 2025. The data center will be one of the largest in the United States. [...] 12. ↑ "Poolside : Cette startup parisienne qui vise une valorisation de 3 milliards de dollars avant même son premier produit - Siècle Digital" (in French). September 16, 2024. 13. ↑ Martin, Iain (July 21, 2026). "American Open-Source Labs Think They Can Beat China's Best AI Startups". Forbes. Retrieved July 23, 2026. 14. ↑ Constantin, Ana Maria (July 21, 2026). "Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the open-weight coding model pitched as the West's answer to DeepSeek and Qwen". TNW "TNW (website)"). Retrieved July 23, 2026. 15. ↑ "Poolside and AWS announce strategic agreement to enable secure, customized generative AI for software engineering on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)" (Press release). [...] As of December 2025, Poolside has 150 employees worldwide. It is headquartered in San Francisco and invites its employees to a monthly concentrated work week at its Paris branch. ### Funding [edit] Within its first year, Poolside secured seed funding of $26 million, followed by an additional $100 million funding round. In October 2024, the company raised $500 million in a Series B funding round led by Bain Capital, DST Global and eBay, among others, which brought its valuation to $3 billion. Poolside had shown a demonstration of its code assistant to these investors using the prompt "Write me the code for a snake video game in python". In October 2025, Nvidia announced that it would invest up to $1 billion in Poolside which would quadruple its valuation to $12 billion. ## Models

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Location Data

Poolside, Lakeview Hot Springs, Riverside County, California, United States

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Coordinates: 33.8462337, -117.1557866

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