Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the open-weight coding model pitched as the West’s answer to DeepSeek and Qwen
Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding that the San Francisco startup says matches or exceeds models several times its size. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with eight billion active parameters per token, is compact enough to run on a single Nvidia DGX Spark desktop system, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Published: 21 July 2026
Source: The Next Web AI
Category: News
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 22 July 2026
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