Max Wegman

We are an American company with a global team and global aspirations. The story of @poolsideai is that early on in the life of the company we decided to focus on building out our applied research org. in Europe. That’s been the seed for an amazing team and a competitive advantage. Today we have team members all over the world, Europe and US are roughly equal in size, Asia is growing. Three years ago we thought France would be a great place to build from but in the early days found our hiring happened all across Europe instead. Today we have less than a handful of folks in France but large teams in Europe in London, Amsterdam, Zurich etc. We operate as a remote first company but have an office in Paris where we do monthly on-sites (it is great logistics for this) and an office in London which is used on a daily basis. When we raised capital early on, the vast majority of it came from US investors but European (including French ones) have been a part of our rounds. When we got to France (almost 3 years ago) we were offered significant double digit million research grants. My cofounder @jasoncwarner and I did not feel comfortable accepting the grants when we realized that France was going to be only a small part of our story. So we respectfully turned them down. France keeps a special place in our hearts but we’re a global company with global aspirations.

@eric_alcaide @iamgrigorev nah we poolin 🏖️

@iamgrigorev we cruising

50% of my time training LLMs at Poolside looks like this: - implement new training feature - it works well in my ablation setup - look into profiler, find communication or cpu bottlenecks - optimize, test, repeat - run scaling laws, strategy on the next run

- Wake up - Analyze Perfetto/NCU traces - Test multiple optimization strategies - Get excited about speedups - Discuss results with lovely human beings This could also be you, if you're passionate about those things reach out/apply!

@rexrledesma @poolsideai 🫡

@poolsideai poolside.ai/blog/laguna-a-…

At @poolsideai, we're announcing the first public models in the Laguna family, Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2! As part of the model factory team, it's been surreal to witness how our models and harnesses have co-evolved to be an incredible thought partner in our day-to-day engineering. We have put so much thought and care into building this model. Our alchemical journey of model development continues before us. I am beyond excited :)

@philipkiely lovely ICLR booth folks gave me that limited edition @baseten Day0-partner hardcopy for the @poolsideai office 🤓🙌

Inference is Everywhere First international print run of Inference Engineering has been delivered in 🇮🇳

@pranay5255 @rosinality Deep dive is on the blog! poolside.ai/blog/laguna-a-…

@rosinality Soo cool! Releasing a tech report for this release ?

Happy to share what we've been building. A lot of work went into the model and it's an honor to have contributed to it, especially in an area I've always been passionate about, pretraining data. This is just the first step and more to come soon. (It's pretty fun to finally share the work I've contributed to.)

I have been involved in many model launches at different places, but this one is the first that feels **industrial** Poolside talks a lot about the model factory, and this is not just some marketing point:

The first public foundation models from @poolsideai just dropped on OpenRouter! Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2. Built from scratch for agentic coding and long-horizon work. Free for a limited time ⬇️

Insanely proud of what the team has built! Now you can all check out why I keep repeating how bullish I am

Laguna M.1 and XS.2 are out today!! So excited to have candidates get hands-on and give feedback on what we've been working on :D

Poolside is heading to ICLR 2026 (@iclr_conf) in Rio this week 🇧🇷 @robert_mchardy , @iamgrigorev, @marah_i_abdin, @helloo_polly, @maxwegman, @SzymonOzog_ and @ArkadiiBessonov will be there from the team. If you’re working on training infra, synthetic data, coding models, RL, or anything at the frontier — come find us!

pumped to head to Brazil with @SzymonOzog_ & other MTS from @poolsideai; we're hiring, and our research team & I would love to connect with folks working across LLM training domains like pretraining, (synthetic) data, PT (RL/FT), evals... the list goes on! get curious 🏖️🏖️

@ninabreznik @AcademyPolkadot You can click on the month/year instead of using the navigation arrows, hope that helps!

@AcademyPolkadot * picking in => selecting

✨ We are excited to announce the launch of PBA Remote as part of the upcoming cohort in Singapore! This pilot initiative will open up new horizons in blockchain education by providing a fully remote learning experience from May 20th to June 20th 2024🇸🇬✨ As a student of PBA Remote, you'll be expected to follow all lectures taking place at the Academy in Singapore synchronously via a livestream💻 What to Expect? ▫️Live Stream Lectures: Gain full access to all lectures via live streaming from anywhere in the world. ▫️Interactive Learning Environment: Engage in an interactive learning environment through a dedicated online chat. Collaborate with peers, ask questions, and participate in discussions that enrich your understanding of blockchain technology. ▫️Equal Opportunities for Success: Submit assignments alongside onsite students. Upon successful graduation from 🎓 @Polkadot Blockchain Academy, you will receive a prestigious certificate recognizing your achievement and expertise in blockchain technology. ▫️Free of Charge: Participate in top-notch blockchain education at basically zero cost. How to apply? Applications for PBA Remote are now open but will remain so only for a limited time period⏰ Hurry up & Apply now👇 page.polkadot.academy/pba-applicatio…

@alice_und_bob @VasilikiTani Never been more excited for your lessons at @AcademyPolkadot than right now

People were scared yesterday when I took the stage to talk about the origins of blockchain, Web3, and Polkadot because I talked for 90 minutes straight without taking a single breath. It was really fun! 🚀 Thanks to @VasilikiTani for organizing the Polkadot Devs Vienna Meetup and to @xcjeeper for preparation and filming. The next two sessions will be led by Robert Klotzner, Polkadot core dev at @paritytech, and @Matjazs, CEO at @Apillon to dive deep into the tech and how to build on Polkadot.

@itsbirdo_ it isn't usually like this, I promise. oh long johns are a must.

-7 is where your outer layer, suddenly becomes your mid later ❄️

@CuriousCharjan @AcademyPolkadot @timadamd Woop woop, likewise! Looking forward to reviewing :)

@AcademyPolkadot @MaxWegman @timadamd it was great meeting you @timadamd! just applied :)

📍Academy Team at #Token2049Singapore

@ggeztr @Chris_Nift @Polkadot @ggeztr I work on the program for the Founders Track! We've got a number of folks responsible for the Core Dev track. If you're interested, apply as a founder, we're looking forward to learning about your project :)

@Chris_Nift @Polkadot I think @MaxWegman is responsible for both tracks

@paritytech is looking for a product/program manager with all levels of experience and a professional blockchain background! Come join us and drive the roadmap for @Polkadot 🤓🧐⚫️ cc: @rphmeier 💪 #productmanagement #programmanagement #tpm

@QuellQuark @danreecer_ @Polkadot @QuellQuark Parity is growing the team focused on polkadot.js and looking to address this! I'm happy to talk to any JS architects/lead engineers up to the task :) parity.io/apply/?gh_jid=…

@danreecer_ @Polkadot is parity working on a better front end user experience? a nice and simple UI ? i think non devs are pretty much overwhelmed with the polkadot.js. Or is it up to 3rd party to come with this?

Now that we’re past Polkadot Decoded and parachain slot auctions are near, let’s get some new @Polkadot content going. What questions do you have about how the tech works, parachain auctions, roadmap, top parachain teams, wallets, PolkadotJS, etc? What still confuses you?

@pawell @hagaetc @recruitee second this, pretty lightweight and really easy-to-use interface for hiring teams to understand quickly

@hagaetc @recruitee

Any recommendations for applicant tracking systems (ATS) for startups? Looking at Greenhouse and Lever but they both have very "book a call"/enterprisy demos and onboarding which is a turnoff...