Poolside
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Poolside is an AI company that develops open-weight models focused on coding tasks. The company recently released Laguna S2.1, a 118-billion-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts model that achieves leading performance on software engineering benchmarks while being computationally efficient, activating only 8 billion parameters per token and supporting one-million-token context windows.
Updated 6 August 2026
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Management
updated 5 Aug 2026- Daniel Stockhaus Partner
Latest developments
Poolside Releases Laguna S 2.1, an Open-Weight Agentic Coding Model Punching Above Its Weight Class on SWE-Bench Multilingual
MarkTechPost · 1 month ago ·
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Latest open artifacts (#22): Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside are expanding the breadth of the ecosystem
Interconnects · 2 months ago ·
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2026
Moonshot released Kimi K3, a large open-weight AI model Open source release
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
Multiple AI companies release open-source models as pricing competition intensifies Open source release
- [AINews] Poolside gets $12B reverse-execuhire to NVIDIA; founders stay for $1B, employees go for $6B, Infraco scaling to 7GW neocloud
- Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier
- The Sequence Radar #901: Last Week in AI: Smarter Models, Physical Machines, and the Expanding AI Stack
- Poolside Releases Laguna S 2.1, an Open-Weight Agentic Coding Model Punching Above Its Weight Class on SWE-Bench Multilingual
- Latest open artifacts (#22): Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside are expanding the breadth of the ecosystem
Relationships
Products & technology
- Develops Laguna S2.1 · 2 sources
- Develops Laguna S 2.1 · 1 source
Partnerships
- Partnered with NVIDIA · 1 source