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Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1 with 1M context and agentic capabilities · 4 sources tracked

Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 8B activated parameters per token. This model is designed for agentic coding and long-horizon tasks, featuring a 1M token context window and interleaved attention mechanisms. Various quantized versions, including NVFP4 and GGUF, are available for local deployment and integration with popular libraries like transformers, vLLM, and llama.cpp. AI

IMPACT This release offers enhanced capabilities for agentic tasks and long-context processing, potentially accelerating development in AI-driven coding and complex problem-solving.

RANK_REASON Model release from a known AI lab (Poolside).

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Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1 with 1M context and agentic capabilities · 4 sources tracked

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  1. Hugging Face Trending Models TIER_1 (ET) · poolside ·

    poolside/Laguna-S-2.1

    text-generation · 3,056 downloads · 87 likes

  2. Hugging Face Trending Models TIER_1 (ET) · poolside ·

    poolside/Laguna-S-2.1-GGUF

    289 downloads · 58 likes

  3. Hugging Face Trending Models TIER_1 (ET) · poolside ·

    poolside/Laguna-S-2.1-NVFP4

    text-generation · 1,953 downloads · 55 likes

  4. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 (CA) · [email protected] ·

    Laguna S 2.1 https://poolside.ai/blog/introducing-laguna-s-2-1 # ai

    Laguna S 2.1 https:// poolside.ai/blog/introducing-l aguna-s-2-1 # ai