product · May 16, 2026

Poolside Announces London Research Hackathon for Laguna XS.2

Poolside is hosting a two-day in-person research hackathon in London on May 29-30, 2026, to push its open-weight Laguna XS.2 agentic coding model further through fine-tuning and post-training. The event partners with NVIDIA, Prime Intellect, and Hugging Face to provide infrastructure, hardware, and an open experimentation environment for participants. Researchers can run the full loop of tasks, evals, rewards, training, rollouts, adapters, and inference using Laguna XS.2 weights.