LaunchAI ModelsJuly 21, 2026
Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model

The open-weight coding model beats rival models 10x its size, per Poolside. The three-year-old San Francisco lab, which sells coding models to governments and defense agencies, is betting radical transparency over raw scale.
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