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Kant: Major AI labs did not prioritize RL for LLMs three years ago
“And the second was that reinforcement learning was going to be the biggest driver for LLM capabilities. Today, very obvious three years ago was not an opinion held or direction held at either OpenAI or Google or Anthropic or others.”
Eiso Kant Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 6:03 The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
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Kant: Laguna S outperforms models two to three times its size
“When you look at the benchmarks and start using it, you'll realize that we are outperforming models two or three times their size.”
Eiso Kant Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 57:50 The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
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Kant: Google relies on Broadcom for TPUs while Amazon works with fabs
“Because while Google has to work with Broadcom to be able to bring TPUs into the world, Amazon is working with the fabs directly.”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 20:13 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Kant: Neither OpenAI nor Poolside is allowed to train on private code
“But private code, no one's allowed to train on. Not us, not OpenAI. So all of us have access to the same public data.”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 27:10 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Held up
Kant: Poolside, OpenAI, and Anthropic will rival Big Tech in AI
“What I would like to see and what I think is going to happen is that it's not just Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. It's going to be, you know, an open eye, an anthropic, a poolside, and a set of companies who are able to get that massive escape velocity needed …”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 53:29 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
MAD Prediction Held up
Kant: Most developers will adopt AI pair programmers within two years
“Well, the first thing that I think is at this point, almost uncontested, but frankly, when I was building source, most people didn't think would happen is the fact that the majority, if not all developers in the next couple of years in the world will adopt som…”
Eiso Kant Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 9:29 The Race to Build the Ultimate AI Programmer | Poolside CTO Eiso Kant
MAD Prediction Held up
Kant: Non-engineers will build software via AI prompts within three years
“We don't think we're more than three years out to that point where a non-engineer, someone with no coding, you know, software development background is able to come and give one of those high level vague things of what they want built, right? Cause that's what…”
Eiso Kant Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 10:42 The Race to Build the Ultimate AI Programmer | Poolside CTO Eiso Kant
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Kant: Poolside's 8B-active Laguna S solved Erdős 397 on DGX Spark
“A 118,000,000,008 B active model, which is not that large. It fits on a DGX spark and still runs at, you know, 3040 tokens a second on a spark is able to solve. Erdos three 97 independently. It's able to do complex programming tasks.”
Eiso Kant Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 39:09 The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
MAD Prediction Didn’t hold up
Kant: Poolside first compute online late 2025, 250MW by Q1 2027
“So at the beginning of Q four, end of Q three, so next year, we've got the first compute coming online. And then we're finalizing in Q one, 20, 27, the first you know, 250 megawatts, but already next summer, the next 250 megawatts starts construction. It's a s…”
Eiso Kant Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 26:40 Intelligence Isn’t Enough: Why Energy & Compute Decide the AGI Race – Eiso Kant
MAD Assertion Partly supported
Kant: Poolside's Malibu agent matches initial Gemini 2.5 Pro SWE-bench scores
“But if you think about the Malibu agent as a coding agent, for instance, right now, it sits at a level of like sweet bench verified, for instance, where Gemini two and a half pro was when it came out.”
Eiso Kant Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 57:01 Intelligence Isn’t Enough: Why Energy & Compute Decide the AGI Race – Eiso Kant
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Kant: Internet has 3T usable code tokens vs 15T English text tokens
“Usable code for training is what we refer to as about three trillion tokens. And if you look at kind of usable language in English on the internet for training, we're talking about anywhere between 10 and 15 trillion tokens. There's a massive amount of code th…”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 3:36 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Kant: xAI built a 100,000 GPU cluster in Tennessee in mere months
“They built a 100,000 GPU, three, 32 K interconnected clusters in Tennessee in the span of months, and XAI showed up with Elon's strength, the ability to build physical infrastructure incredibly fast in the world.”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 46:51 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Nvidia GPUs yield 2x AI training performance gain every two years
“Pretty much what we've seen consistently with every two-year generation of training from NVIDIA is about a two X, one and a half to two X, you know, performance increase. But training is about two X every two years.”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 39:22 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
LATENT SPACE Assertion Partly supported
Kant: Sourced blew $12M of investor capital on code models before failing
“We failed ultimately at the time, and it kind of was like biggest failure of my career, right? You blew twelve million dollars of investors' money, which was a lot back then.”
Eiso Kant Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 4:49 The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
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Kant: Zhipu AI began developing models years before ChatGPT
“They started years before ChatGPT.”
Eiso Kant Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 32:39 The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
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