Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the open-weight coding model pitched as the West’s answer to DeepSeek and Qwen

The Next Web
By Ana Maria ConstantinJul 21, 2026, 3:49 pm110 pts
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…

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