Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, a 118B open-weight coding model that matches rivals many times its size

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Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts coding model with 8B activated parameters per token and a 1M-token context window. The open-weight model is available on Hugging Face under an OpenMDW-1.1 license and is designed for agentic coding tasks. It reportedly matches the performance of much larger proprietary rivals.

• •118B MoE model with 8B active params, 1M token context
• •Open weights on Hugging Face under OpenMDW-1.1 license
• •Built for agentic coding; rivals larger proprietary models

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