US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2, a 33B-A3B-parameter MoE model, and Laguna M.1, a proprietary 225B-A23B-parameter MoE model (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Poolside released its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2 (33B-A3B MoE), alongside proprietary Laguna M.1 (225B-A23B MoE), targeting local agentic coding applications.

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<a href="https://venturebeat.com/technology/american-ai-startup-poolside-launches-free-high-performing-open-model-laguna-xs-2-for-local-agentic-coding"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260428/i45.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/260428/p45#a260428p45" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Carl Franzen / <a href="https://venturebeat.com/">VentureBeat</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://venturebeat.com/technology/american-ai-startup-poolside-launches-free-high-performing-open-model-laguna-xs-2-for-local-agentic-coding">US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2, a 33B-A3B-parameter MoE model, and Laguna M.1, a proprietary 225B-A23B-parameter MoE model</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The AI race lately has felt a bit like a game of tennis: first, Anthropic releases a new, pricey state-of-the-art proprietary model &hellip; </p>