[AINews] "Laguna S 2.1 Released: Cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash, Better than V4 Pro"

Latent Space · 2 months ago · 32 ● 4 sources

Poolside AI released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with only 8 billion active parameters per token and open weights on Hugging Face. The model achieved 70.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 78.5% on SWE-bench Multilingual, reportedly outperforming Deepseek v4 Flash at lower cost. If benchmark claims hold, it could become a leading open-source model in the 120B class and influence competitor release schedules.