Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size

VentureBeat
Jul 21, 2026, 5:49 pm115 pts
Poolside, the San Francisco AI lab that has spent most of its three-year existence quietly selling coding models to governments and defense agencies, released its most capable model to date on Tuesday — and made an unusually aggressive bet that radical transparency, not raw scale, is how a smaller lab…

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