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Poolside CEO says most companies shouldn’t build foundation models


Poolside's Jason Warner said that unless a company thinks intelligence is an important as electricity, they should build an application.

Warner told the audience at the HumanX AI conference in Las Vegas on Monday that he doesn’t think anyone who doesn’t think intelligence is the most important commodity in the world — on par with electricity — should be building a foundation model. “If you’re one of those people, if you want to take one side of the fence, you’re a printing press for cash unlike anything we’ve ever seen in the world,” Warner said. San Francisco-based Poolside was founded in 2023 by Warner, the former CTO of GitHub and VC at managing director at Redpoint, and Eiso Kant, a serial founder.

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