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Poolside built custom distributed LLM training framework from scratch
“We didn't take Megatron or DeepSpeed or kind of the big open source frameworks for training large language models. As our base, we built our own from scratch and we built our own distributed training for our pre-training stage.”
Kant: Poolside's Project Horizon is an expandable two-gigawatt data center campus
“So Project Horizon, in a nutshell, is today announced a two gigawatt campus. We can actually go far beyond two gigawatts on the site that we're in.”
Kant: Poolside starting construction on 250MW natural gas data center in 2025
“And so what you're seeing from us is that before the end of this year, we're starting construction on a 250 megawatt data center. It's natural gas powered with grid connection as a backup, and it will house an incredible amount of compute, but it will be the f…”
Kant: Poolside is building a 250MW data center with under 450 workers
“When we're building 250 megawatts, We're doing it with a less than 450 person on site workforce with very skilled tradesmen and construction workers that we're bringing over there and we're housing over there versus a world where you might need traditionally 2…”
Poolside will launch a direct competitor to GitHub Copilot X in 2024
“But in terms of what we're delivering to the end user, we're starting with a direct competitor to get up Copilot X. And so natural language, multi-turn dialogue system. Where developers give instructions of what they want done while they're in their editor. Th…”
Kant: CoreWeave is the anchor tenant for Poolside's new data center
“They are the anchor tenant on our data center.”
Kant: Poolside aims to power all knowledge work globally
“And so we're starting to open up much more broader outside of software development and come back to what we've always said, like we want to be able to power all of knowledge work in the world.”
Kant details Poolside's Laguna model training timeline and 41,000 GB300 cluster
“That's our upcoming family of models, Laguna, where we'll have a small, a medium, and a large. So small is finishing training in a couple of weeks, medium actually starts training this week and large starts training as our 41,000 GB 300 come online.”
Kant: Poolside operates inside defense SCIFs and air-gapped servers
“So we today operate on workstations that go into SCIFs. We operate on servers that are, you know, on-prem or even as far as air-gapped.”
Eiso Kant: Poolside pre-trains models on a 50/50 language-code split
“Our data split is about 50, 50 between language and code.”
Poolside plans eight years of construction for West Texas data center project
“When we talk about this big multi-gigawatt project, we've got about eight years worth of construction that we are planning out there”
Poolside scales its RL environment repository to over 1M codebases
“Right now we have over a million of those environments and tens of millions of revisions, putting us in like the thirty million range.”
Kant: Poolside is vertically integrating custom foundation models and offering APIs
“We deliver this AI pair programming assistant full application stack with the models, I think fully vertically integrated with our own foundation models trained from scratch, but then also exposing those models with an API to allow other people to build all th…”
Poolside plans enterprise strategy targeting companies with up to 100k developers
“And so you're going to see a strong emphasis of us of also bringing poolside into enterprises, into complex environments where there might be 10,000 or a 100,000 developers, where the model needs to continuously learn and be fine-tuned on their data, where it'…”