Poolside has announced the release of Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that outperforms larger models on certain benchmarks. The model, which has 118 billion parameters, is designed for agentic coding tasks and can run on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark. Laguna S 2.1 is notable for its ability to achieve high performance despite being smaller than some of its competitors. The model is available under the OpenMDW-1.1 license. This development is significant because it highlights the potential for smaller models to achieve high performance in certain tasks.