Poolside AI
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Poolside AI is an AI company that develops open-weight language models with a focus on efficient architecture and rapid iteration cycles. The company recently released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that achieves competitive performance on coding and benchmarking tasks while using only 8 billion active parameters per token, reportedly outperforming significantly larger models from competitors like DeepSeek at lower computational cost.
Updated 7 August 2026
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[AINews] "Laguna S 2.1 Released: Cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash, Better than V4 Pro"
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Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
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Introducing Laguna S 2.1
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2026
Poolside AI releases Laguna 118B, an open-weight model demonstrating exceptional efficiency with significant performance gains over much larger competitors Open source release
Poolside AI releases Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight 118B-parameter coding model with sparse mixture-of-experts architecture Open source release
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Products & technology
- Develops Laguna S 2.1 · 3 sources
- Develops Laguna · 1 source
People
- Founded by Eiso Kant · 1 source