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Jason Warner

Co-founder and co-CEO, Poolside

Jason Warner is a co-founder and co-CEO of Poolside, which builds foundation models and agents for software development, including the open-weight Laguna family. Warner co-signs Poolside's major announcements with fellow co-founder and co-CEO Eiso Kant, from its 2024 partnership with AWS to the 2026 release of Laguna XS.2.123

At a glance

Current role
Co-founder and co-CEO
Company
Poolside
Sector
Company
Work listed
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Sources cited
3
Profile reviewed

Poolside

Warner co-founded Poolside with Eiso Kant, and the company's announcements from 2024 to 2026 list both as co-CEOs and co-founders. Poolside describes improving its models for software development through Reinforcement Learning from Code Execution Feedback (RLCEF).321

In December 2024 Warner and Kant announced a partnership making Poolside's models available as a first-party AWS offering, and in November 2025 the acquisition of Fern Labs, a forward-deployed research engineering company behind the Bridge multi-agent orchestration layer. In April 2026 they announced Laguna M.1 and the open-weight Laguna XS.2.321

Work and contributions

  • Laguna Open weights

    Co-signed the April 2026 post releasing Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2, Poolside's first open-weight model, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0.1

Timeline

  1. Co-signed Poolside's announcement of a first-party partnership with AWS.3
  2. Co-signed Poolside's announcement of its acquisition of Fern Labs.2
  3. Co-announced Laguna M.1 and Poolside's first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2.1

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References

3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026

  1. Introducing Laguna XS.2 and Laguna M.1Poolside · Announcement · published Apr 28, 2026 · accessed Oct 21, 2026 · reviewed Oct 21, 2026
  2. Announcing the acquisition of Fern LabsPoolside · Announcement · published Nov 18, 2025 · accessed Oct 21, 2026 · reviewed Oct 21, 2026
  3. Unveiling Poolside's first-party partnership with AWSPoolside · Announcement · published Dec 4, 2024 · accessed Oct 21, 2026 · reviewed Oct 21, 2026