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Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the West’s most capable open-weight model

What happened

Poolside released Laguna S 2.1, an 118B parameter model matching larger models on coding benchmarks. It runs on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark, addressing the West's need for open-weight models. Bullish for NVIDIA inference hardware demand.

Impact and signal

Medium impactImpact score: 35/100

Affected components and suppliers

NVIDIA DGX SparkAI ChipsGPUs

PoolsideNVIDIA

AIInferenceOpen-WeightNVIDIA

Source and time

Source: GlobeNewswire Semiconductors · 7/21/2026 · View original source

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Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the West’s most capable open-weight model

What happened

Impact and signal

Affected components and suppliers

Source and time

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