poolside

Poolside is a frontier research lab founded in 2023, focused on building highly capable foundation models, AI agents, and the enterprise systems needed to deploy them. The company's stated mission is to drive abundance for humanity through artificial general intelligence, with a particular emphasis on software engineering as a path toward that goal.

The lab's technical work spans reinforcement learning, foundation models, and agent development. Its foundation models are trained using a Reinforcement Learning from Code Execution Feedback approach, designed to learn from experience. Poolside's AI agents operate in orchestrated coding environments seeded from open-source software repositories, with the company orchestrating millions of such environments. These models and agents are packaged into enterprise systems for deployment in production settings, targeting software engineering and other high-consequence applications.

Poolside describes its culture as mission-driven, with a focus on tackling difficult problems first. The company envisions AI driving down costs, accelerating scientific progress, and ultimately freeing people to choose how they spend their time.