Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models (Iain Martin/Forbes)

Iain Martin / Forbes:
Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models  —  Chinese open-source models like Kimi, Deepseek and Qwen are now dominant AI tools.  American upstarts like Mira Murati's Thinking Machines …

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