POOLSIDE RELEASES LAGUNA S 2.1, AN OPEN-WEIGHT AGENTIC CODING MODEL PUNCHING ABOVE ITS WEIGHT CLASS ON SWE-BENCH MULTILINGUAL
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Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B open-weight Mixture-of-Experts coding model with 8B active parameters per token and a 1M-token context. It matches or beats models several times its size on agentic coding benchmarks, ships under OpenMDW-1.1, and runs on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark.
According to MarkTechPost, Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B open-weight Mixture-of-Experts coding model with 8B active parameters per token and a 1M-token context.
The available RSS description adds: It matches or beats models several times its size on agentic coding benchmarks, ships under OpenMDW-1.1, and runs on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark.
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- MarkTechPost: Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B open-weight Mixture-of-Experts coding model with 8B active parameters per token and a 1M-token context.
- MarkTechPost: It matches or beats models several times its size on agentic coding benchmarks, ships under OpenMDW-1.1, and runs on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark.
- MarkTechPost: The post Poolside Releases Laguna S 2.1, an Open-Weight Agentic Coding Model Punching Above Its Weight Class on SWE-Bench Multilingual appeared first on MarkTechPost.
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- 22/07/2026, 01:01 PRIMARY FEED POOLSIDE RELEASES LAGUNA S 2.1, AN OPEN-WEIGHT AGENTIC CODING MODEL PUNCHING ABOVE ITS WEIGHT CLASS ON SWE-BENCH MULTILINGUAL (MarkTechPost • 3 hrs ago) [Story Intel]
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