Poolside’s Laguna S launches with 118B parameters, 8B active and 1M context
Madisonkanna · x · 2026-07-22
A quoted interview around Poolside’s Laguna S launch says the team is continuing work on inference with the Poolside team and frames the release as a milestone for American open-source AI.
Key details highlighted in the talk include:
- Laguna S: 118B parameters, 8B active
- Built in 8 weeks
- Uses sliding-window attention and supports 1M context
- The discussion covers the economics of open weights, why Poolside opened its models, and the idea that software engineering is moving toward behaviors rather than raw IQ
- The speaker also argues there is a 12–18 month window for who gets to build intelligence
Related event: Poolside Releases 118B Open-Weight Coding Model Laguna S 2.1(35 posts)→
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