3 outlets·3 reports
Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size
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Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model designed for agentic coding and long-horizon tasks. The company positions the model as a Western answer to larger rivals such as DeepSeek and Qwen, asserting that it outperforms competing models by a factor of ten despite being ten times smaller.
Written from all 3 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- TechMeme·Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models (Iain Martin/Forbes)
- The Next Web·Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the open-weight coding model pitched as the West’s answer to DeepSeek and Qwen
- VentureBeat·Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size
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