Poolside details Laguna S 2.1 base as a 118B MoE with 8B active params
cephaloform · x · 2026-07-22
Laguna S 2.1 base is the pre-trained model behind Laguna S 2.1, with 118B total parameters and about 8B active parameters per token.
- It uses interleaved full and sliding-window attention across 48 layers.
- The architecture includes 256 routed experts plus one shared expert.
- The base model is not publicly available; researchers can request access at [email protected].
- Poolside says the base model is not instruction-tuned and has no chat, reasoning, or tool-calling behavior; those capabilities live in Laguna S 2.1.
The post is mainly a model-card style announcement with concrete architecture details, not a product demo.
Related event: Poolside Releases 118B Open-Weight Coding Model Laguna S 2.1(35 posts)→
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