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How to Build a Frontier Model Factory (48 minutes)

·2026.07.23 14:09

Key point

Poolside's Co-CEO Eiso Kant explains the training infrastructure and strategy behind building Laguna S, a 118B MoE model.

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Poolside's Co-CEO Eiso Kant reveals the process behind how a small research team built Laguna S, a model with performance that overwhelms much larger models.

Laguna S is a model with a 118B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, and it recorded performance surpassing much larger open-weight systems. The key to this process lies in building efficient Training Infrastructure.

Key points are as follows:

  • How to design optimal infrastructure for a small team to train large-scale models
  • Architectural decisions for the Laguna S model
  • Efficient resource management strategies to achieve large-scale model performance

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