$12B AI model maker backed by Nvidia, Bain Capital, and DST that pivoted entirely to open source.
“Laguna by Poolside — Foundation models for agentic coding and long-horizon work (125 votes)”
Source→“We cannot have a world where every single company is going to be building upon intelligence that is either coming from only three companies in the world or is coming from Chinese players.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.