Poolside to shut down its AI chat service on 31 October

Poolside Chat will shut down on 31 October. Users are being directed to downloadable models that can run on their own infrastructure.

FinFly NewsroomOctober 26, 202699 views1 min read

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Poolside will shut down its Poolside Chat web service on 31 October 2026, according to a notice on the chat page.

The company is directing users to download models from Hugging Face and host them themselves instead of using the cloud interface. Its model catalogue continues to list the Laguna family and links to downloadable weights.

The closure concerns Chat specifically. The notice does not cover all products from the company, which develops AI for programming and software agents.

On 28 July, Poolside introduced Desktop Assistant, a desktop interface for working with agents in software development. Models and developer tools remain the startup’s core focus.

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Poolside Chat will shut down on 31 October. Users are being directed to downloadable models that can run on their own infrastructure.

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