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Laguna S 2.1

bypoolsidepoolside· 21 Jul 2026
General purpose

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!

Specs
Params118B (8B active)
LicenseOpenMDW-1.1
Adoption · Hugging Face
RAM score
Hugging Face Downloads
80.1K
last 30d
80.1K
all time
HF Likes
902

Relative Adoption Metric contextualizes downloads against the model's size bucket.

Inference · OpenRouter
Tokens/Day
132.9B
7d avg · listed 7/7
Peak Tokens/Day
246.1B
31 Jul 2026
Peak Rank
#7
02 Aug 2026

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.

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