Forget Parameters: How Behavioral AI Beats Raw Scale
Poolside AI's Eiso Kant argues 'behavioral intelligence' in models like Laguna S beats raw parameter count for complex tasks. Rethink your LLM strategy.
The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
With swyx, Alessio Fanelli, Eiso Kant · Sunday, July 26, 2026
Eiso Kant, CEO of Poolside AI, discusses his company's mission to foster an open and competitive AI landscape, moving away from an oligopoly of intelligence. He highlights Poolside's 'Model Factory' approach to rapidly build and iterate LLMs and shares insights on how 'behavioral intelligence' in smaller models can offer significant capabilities, challenging the exclusive focus on raw scale. Kant also offers strong opinions on the future of LLM training, tool calls, and the ethical implications of open versus closed AI development.
Eiso Kant: Open AI Is a Geopolitical Fight for Your Future
Poolside AI CEO Eiso Kant warns against closed AI "oligopolies," likening restrictions to a sci-fi dystopia. Open AI isn't just code, it's a geopolitical imperative.
Poolside AI's Kant: RL is LLM's 'Biggest Wall Clock Bottleneck'
Eiso Kant of Poolside AI says LLM reinforcement learning is bottlenecked by batch size. Disaggregate hardware and use low-precision for major speed gains.