LaunchAI ModelsJuly 21, 2026

poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, a 118B-A8B coding model

Laguna S 2.1 scores 70.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 78.5% on SWE-bench Multilingual. poolside positions it as cheaper than DeepSeek v4 Flash while beating v4 Pro; GGUFs ship for a llama.cpp custom fork.

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