Poolside ships Laguna S 2.1, a compact open-weight coding model that outperforms bigger rivals
The Decoder · rss · 2026-07-23
- Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, its third coding model in three months.
- The company says it focused on making the model keep checking its work, revising failed approaches, and not giving up during long agentic sessions.
- Poolside claims the compact open-weight model beats several much larger rivals on benchmarks and solved a math problem open since 1975 for under 10 cents.
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