Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1 with 118B MoE, 1M-token context and open weights
nathanbenaich · x · 2026-07-22
Poolside says it has released Laguna S 2.1, its most capable model yet.
- 118B total parameters with 8B activated per token (MoE).
- Supports up to 1M-token context.
- Includes both thinking and non-thinking modes.
- The company says it can compete with models many times larger while still running on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark.
- Weights are available now under OpenMDW-1.1 on Hugging Face.
Related event: Poolside Releases 118B Open-Weight Coding Model Laguna S 2.1(35 posts)→
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