Today, we’re releasing Poolside Desktop Assistant.
One place to run coding agents across macOS, VS Code, and Visual Studio.
We built it for ourselves and have used it every day for the past year. Now we’re opening it up to everyone.
Building AI in the open makes the world more secure.
We’re joining the Open Secure AI Alliance to build open tools that safeguard software and agents.
We’ll keep releasing model weights and evaluations and sharing our research to strengthen a broader open ecosystem for
Attackers have frontier AI. Defenders need a frontier AI ecosystem—the best open and closed models, force-multiplied by a global community.
During the Hugging Face incident, closed AI blocked essential forensics. An open-weight frontier model helped contain the intrusion.
The path to an evaluation score matters as much as the score itself.
As models become more capable and persistent, reward hacking becomes a more prominent challenge for agent evaluation. It is not enough to know that an agent reached the right result. We need to understand how
An agent can pass a benchmark and still fail the test.
For Laguna S 2.1, @poolsideai evaluated full trajectories, not just final scores. @AppenResearch worked with Poolside on aspects of the reward hacking detection used during the evaluation process.
We completely agree.
We think the interface should be independent of the model or harness.
That’s exactly why we built Poolside Desktop Assistant.
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Open source, open weight models surging… now we just need app layer/harness/interfaces that make them shine
Power move for @claudeai would be to allow you to use any model with Cowork — @DarioAmodei you up for that?
Laguna XS 2.1 already runs on a Mac. Now it's time to make it fly.
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