August 16, 2026

Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size

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Poolside, the San Francisco AI lab that has spent most of its three-year existence quietly selling coding models to governments and defense agencies, released its most capable model to date on Tuesday — and made an unusually aggressive bet that radic...