Poolside, an American AI startup, has launched a new open-weight model named Laguna, which claims to outperform its Western open-source competitors. While Laguna is not as powerful as top closed models from OpenAI and Anthropic, or Moonshot's Kimi K3, Poolside aims to compete by industrializing model development for faster iteration. The company is positioning Laguna as the leading open model in the West, with plans to develop larger models in the future. This release comes as other labs, like Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab, also enter the open-weight model space, seeking alternatives to expensive and closed proprietary models. AI
IMPACT Poolside's Laguna release aims to provide a strong open-weight alternative in the West, potentially increasing competition and driving down costs for AI tools.
RANK_REASON Poolside is a startup releasing a new AI model, Laguna, positioning it as a competitor to existing frontier models. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]
- Anthropic
- Spark
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Deepseek
- Inkling
- Jason Warner
- Kimi K3
- Laguna
- Llama
- Meta
- Moonshot
- Nvidia
- OpenAI
- Poolside
- Thinking Machines Lab
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