Poolside
By Poolside
Foundation-model company behind the Laguna model family — Laguna M.1 (225B MoE, 23B active) and Laguna XS.2 (33B MoE, 3B active), open-weight models trained for agentic coding and available via OpenAI-compatible API.
Best for
- agentic coding models
- open-weight MoE
- long-horizon coding
- OpenAI-compatible API
- self-hosted inference
- Jun 21, 2026Added — Laguna M.1 + XS.2 open-weight MoE models for agentic coding via OpenAI-compatible API.
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