American AI company Poolside has released the weights for its Laguna M.1 model, making it available as an open-source model under the Apache 2.0 license. This model, previously available only via API, boasts a 256K context length and a large parameter count. While competitive, benchmark results indicate it performs below leading Chinese open models like DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Qwen 3.5, though it surpasses the French Devstral 2 model. AI
IMPACT Accelerates open-source LLM development and allows for local execution on capable hardware.
RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card and weights available. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]
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- Apache 2.0
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash
- Devstral 2
- GLM-4.7
- Hugging Face
- Laguna M.1
- Laguna XS.2
- Poolside
- Qwen 3.5
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