Laguna S 2.1
Poolside quickly rose out of nowhere to become a frequent guest at Artifacts, marking its third appearance in three consecutive months. S2.1 is a newly pre- and post-trained version of the 118B-A8B MoE that fits on a DGX Spark, which brought it a lot of attention. Poolside also adopted the OpenMDW license, which is an Apache 2.0-like free license but has better legal backing for AI models specifically. The company also goes into more detail in its blog, which includes all the evaluation trajectories. This is a lot of transparency for an open model release!
Relative Adoption Metric contextualizes downloads against the model's size bucket.
OpenRouter publishes daily token totals for its ~50 most-served models. Days missing from the chart mean Laguna S 2.1 fell below that cutoff — not zero usage. OpenRouter logs usage separately per dated model version and per variant (like ":free"); the hub sums them into one daily total per model.




