Eiso Kant
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From Research to Reality: Why Open Source Is the Engine of AI | RAISE Summit 2026
Ion Stoica, Thomas Wolf, Dillon Rolnick, Eiso Kant, Robin Rombach, Mark Porter, Dylan Rolnick
Founders from Poolside, Databricks, Neuse Research, and Hugging Face, moderated by Mark Porter, convened to debate preventing AI monopoly through open-weight models rather than closed ecosystems. The panelists argued that open source remains the only viable path for critical sectors like robotics and scientific discovery while highlighting risks of geopolitical bias and regulatory lockout under current centralized control. Ultimately, the group emphasized a strategic shift toward commoditized infrastructure and real-world evaluation to avoid security fears and drive the next wave of physical and scientific breakthroughs.
Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211
Poolside secured a $500 million funding round to deploy 10,000 GPUs for developing specialized AI models capable of writing software, a capability CEO Daniel Diner identifies as the critical prerequisite for achieving Artificial General Intelligence. Distinguishing its approach from static text-based training, the company leverages reinforcement learning on execution feedback from over 130,000 real-world codebases to generate high-quality "intermediate reasoning" data. Operating as an independent entity despite offering investment from NVIDIA, Poolside aims to navigate the intense compute bottleneck and price wars of the current landscape by balancing rapid scaling with a strategy of distilling massive models into economically viable inference tools.