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Poolside released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight foundation model designed for agentic coding, according to the August 24, 2026 press release coverage. The release states that its weights are available on Hugging Face under the OpenMDW-1.1 license and that Poolside is also publishing evaluations run The supplied excerpt says Laguna S 2.1 is small enough to run on one NVIDIA DGX Spark and matches or exceeds several larger models on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and SWE-Bench Pro. Those benchmark comparisons are Poolside-reported claims, but the release's architecture, 118-billion-parameter scale, licensing, local hardware tar