Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the open-weight coding model pitched as the West’s answer to DeepSeek and Qwen
THE SO WHAT
An open-weight 118B-parameter MoE coding model with only 8B active parameters per token narrows the gap between proprietary giants and self-hosted agents. Engineering orgs that care about data control and latency now have a credible Western option to pilot for in-house codegen and autonomous coding workflows.
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