Poolside drops Laguna XS.2 open weights

Hot take: this is a meaningful open-weight coding release, not just another small model drop. Poolside is clearly aiming at the “serious agentic coding” segment, where long context, tool use, and local deployability matter more than raw parameter count.

• –33B total parameters with 3B active parameters per token, built as a Mixture-of-Experts model.
• –Released under Apache 2.0, which makes it unusually usable for commercial and community reuse.
• –Positioned for long-horizon coding tasks and agent workflows, not generic chat.
• –Poolside is also surfacing benchmark claims that put it in a credible small-model performance tier.
• –The release is paired with broader ecosystem support, including local deployment and framework integration.