Poolside and EigenLabs launch an open contest to speed up Laguna XS 2.1 on Apple Silicon Macs
gajesh · x · 2026-07-28
Poolside AI and EigenLabs launched an open competition to speed up Laguna XS 2.1 inference on Apple Silicon Macs.
- The model already runs on a Mac; the next goal is to make it faster.
- Participants can point agents at the task and contribute low-level optimizations.
- The focus is on tokens/sec and MLX inference performance for the open-weight ecosystem.
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