Poolside hosts London hackathon for open-weight agent models
Poolside hosts a two-day model research hackathon in London on May 29-30. Participants advance open-weight agent models by applying reinforcement learning and fine-tuning to the Laguna XS.2 model. Partners NVIDIA, Prime Intellect, and Hugging Face support the program, which awards an NVIDIA DGX Spark prize for top entries improving local agent performance.
happy hacking! 🏖️
Poolside is hosting a 2-day model research hackathon in London. Join us to push an open-weight agent model as far as you can. RL and fine-tune Laguna XS.2, our latest-generation model, on Prime Intellect Lab. Dates: May 29–30 Partners: @nvidia + @PrimeIntellect + @huggingface Prize: NVIDIA DGX Spark Agents need better models. Better models need cracked researchers. Link below.
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come hang and train your own model :) v excited to support this, Laguna XS.2 is a really great base for custom agents you can run locally
Poolside is hosting a 2-day model research hackathon in London. Join us to push an open-weight agent model as far as you can. RL and fine-tune Laguna XS.2, our latest-generation model, on Prime Intellect Lab. Dates: May 29–30 Partners: @nvidia + @PrimeIntellect + @huggingface Prize: NVIDIA DGX Spark Agents need better models. Better models need cracked researchers. Link below.
“train a custom 30B MoE agent model with reinforcement learning in a real harness” is now easy and cost-effective enough that it can be a hackathon format
sign up here
Apply here: https://luma.com/poolsidehackathon Come work directly on Laguna XS.2: → fine-tuning → post-training → quantization → RL environments → inference optimization → stronger agentic coding workflows @PrimeIntellect Lab will support teams building the full improvement loop from evals to environments to RL runs.