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Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size

Poolside , the San Francisco AI lab that has spent most of its three-year existence quietly selling coding models to governments and defe…

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Poolside , the San Francisco AI lab that has spent most of its three-year existence quietly selling coding models to governments and defense agencies, released its most capable model to date on Tuesday — and made an unusually aggressive bet that radical transparency, not raw scale, is how a smaller lab competes at the frontier. The model, Laguna S 2.1 , is…

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