Poolside releases Laguna XS.2, opens M.1

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Poolside releases Laguna XS.2, opens M.1

Poolside’s latest update is a major model-and-product drop: it released Laguna XS.2 as open weights under Apache 2.0 and made Laguna M.1 publicly available, while also previewing two products, pool and Shimmer, aimed at agentic coding workflows. The launch positions Poolside more directly as a full-stack foundation model lab for software engineering, not just a model company.

// ANALYSIS

Hot take: this is a meaningful step from secrecy into distribution. Poolside is pairing a credible open-weight model release with products that make the models immediately usable, which is the right move if it wants developer adoption instead of just benchmark headlines.

–Laguna XS.2 is open weights, Apache 2.0, and small enough to run on a single GPU, which lowers friction for experimentation.
–Laguna M.1 is now publicly available, giving the company a stronger flagship model story.
–Previewing both `pool` and `Shimmer` shows Poolside is pushing an end-to-end workflow, not just model access.
–The release is clearly oriented around agentic coding, long-horizon tasks, and enterprise deployment boundaries.

// TAGS

poolsidelagunaopen-weightscoding-agentfoundation-modelsagententerprise-ai

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2026-04-29

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2026-04-29

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Poolside releases Laguna XS.2, opens M.1