We demonstrate the potential of NVIDIA's NVLink C2C on Grace-based superchips as a high-performance alternative to selective activation checkpointing. By offloading MLP activations to host memory during training, we achieve a 6–13% throughput improvement over selective AC with negligible memory overhead.
When people ask what it takes to build frontier AI, the focus is usually on the model—the architecture, the training runs, the research breakthroughs. But that’s only half the story.
Introducing the Model Factory
When we founded Poolside in San Francisco in April 2023, the narrative in the industry was that all we needed to reach AGI was to scale up language modelling.
We believe in a future where AI drives abundance—making science, health, housing, food, and education better, cheaper, and more accessible.
We demonstrate the potential of NVIDIA's NVLink C2C on Grace-based superchips as a high-performance alternative to selective activation checkpointing. By offloading MLP activations to host memory during training, we achieve a 6–13% throughput improvement over selective AC with negligible memory overhead.
Using the Model Factory and its components to conduct post-training at scale
Running inference and evaluations inside the Model Factory
We present the details of our code execution platform
We present details of our distributed training codebase, known as Titan.
A deep dive into the Model Factory’s data pipelines
Introducing the Model Factory
We’re excited to announce that Poolside acquired Fern Labs, a London-based forward‑deployed research engineering company behind Bridge, a multi‑agent orchestration layer built for high‑stakes production environments.
Our strategic partnership with Redpanda's Agentic Data Plane
When people ask what it takes to build frontier AI, the focus is usually on the model—the architecture, the training runs, the research breakthroughs. But that’s only half the story.
Today, we’re thrilled to announce a transformative partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that establishes Poolside as a first-party AWS offering.
AI has the potential to drive abundance for humanity in the 21st century at a magnitude larger than the last 100 years of technological progress.