Poolside AI
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| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
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| Founded | 2023 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, United States[1] |
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| Website | poolside.ai |
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Poolside AI or poolside is an American startup developing artificial intelligence to write computer software and coding applications.[2][3] It focuses on creating the "most capable AI" to automate and improve coding processes, emphasizing security, privacy, and efficiency for businesses, with plans to build artificial general intelligence.[2][4] In October 2025, Nvidia announced that it would invest up to $1 billion in Poolside which would quadruple its valuation to $12 billion.[5]
History
[edit]Poolside AI was founded in early 2023 by Jason Warner, former CTO of GitHub, and Eiso Kant, a software entrepreneur.[2] The company started with a work from home model and had employees in the United States, United Kingdom and France.[6] It secured a seed funding of $26 million, followed shortly by an additional $100 million funding round.[7][8]
In October 2024, the company raised $500 million from Bain Capital.[9][10] This valued the company at $3 billion, giving it unicorn status.[11][12] At the time, Poolside had shown a code-generation demonstration to its investors and later released a product for coding automation, targeting government and defense applications.[2][5]
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.[6]
Partnerships
[edit]Poolside has signed contracts with RTX Corporation and other companies in the American defense industrial base, while working to sell its autonomous software development engine to Israeli defense companies.[6]
In December 2024, Poolside and AWS announced a strategic partnership to offer secure and customizable generative AI solutions for software development on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon EC2. This collaboration allows businesses to deploy Poolside's AI Assistant and its foundational models (Malibu and Point) within their existing AWS environment, benefiting from AWS's security and performance.[13]
The first phase of Poolside's Project Horizon, a 2-gigawatt artificial intelligence campus located in Pecos County, Texas, started in October 2025.[14] The data center will be one of the largest in the United States.[5]
Activity
[edit]Poolside AI aims to generate computer code using a large language model.[15][16] Poolside's software uses natural-language prompts from developers to create and test code that its executives have claimed gives the company's models an advantage in training "to act as software development assistants from the start".[6][11]
With its developments on artificial general intelligence, it has created an industrialized training infrastructure known as Model Factory, internal systems framework for building, training and evaluating large foundation models that automate the full lifecycle of model development.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Emily Forgash; Rose Henderson (October 15, 2025). "AI Startup Poolside Teams With CoreWeave on Massive Data Center". Bloomberg.
- ^ a b c d Berthelot, Benoit; Ghosh, Shona. "AI startup Poolside nears $3 billion valuation". Fortune.
- ^ "Mistral AI, Poolside, H... Ces cinq start-up françaises à la pointe de l'IA". Сhallenges. 10 February 2025. Retrieved February 10, 2025.
- ^ Leprince-Ringuet, Daphné (October 3, 2024). "'We have to build a very strong revenue engine': Poolside AI gets ready to release product after a year of secrecy". Sifted. Retrieved November 14, 2025.
- ^ a b c Clark, Kate; Sun, Yazhou. "Nvidia to Invest Up to $1 Billion in AI Startup Poolside". Bloomberg.com.
- ^ a b c d e Gilead, Assaf (15 December 2025). "Poolside AI targets Israel's defense sector". Globes.
- ^ Digitale, Usine (21 June 2024). "La start-up Poolside en passe de lever 400 millions de dollars pour son modèle d'IA dédié au code".
- ^ "Poolside AI : La startup deviendrait française, Xavier Niel aurait investi". 25 August 2023.
- ^ "AI coding startup Poolside raises $500M from eBay, Nvidia, and others". 2 October 2024.
- ^ "Poolside lève 500M$ pour la GenAI appliquée au coding". 4 October 2024.
- ^ a b "Poolside Raises $500 Million to Build AI Coding Software". Bloomberg.
- ^ "Poolside : Cette startup parisienne qui vise une valorisation de 3 milliards de dollars avant même son premier produit - Siècle Digital". 16 September 2024.
- ^ "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).
- ^ McEwen, Mella. "Poolside and CoreWeave plan 2GW AI campus in Pecos County". Midland Reporter-Telegram.
- ^ "IA générative : La licorne tricolore Poolside lève 500 millions de dollars". Les Echos. 2 October 2024.
- ^ "French start-up Poolside wants to break through with AI for writing code". 16 September 2024.
