
Poolside ships Laguna S 2.1 with 118B total size, activates 8B per token
The open-weight coding model lands on Hugging Face with 1M-token context and benchmark scores that outrun bigger rivals.

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The open-weight coding model lands on Hugging Face with 1M-token context and benchmark scores that outrun bigger rivals.

Laguna S 2.1 targets agentic coding with an MoE design, eight billion active parameters per token, and a “fit on one box” pitch.

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