Poolside Drops Laguna S 2.1: 118B Total, 8B Active, Open Weights, Runs on a Single DGX Spark and Beats Models 10x Its Size

Poolside just released Laguna S 2.1 on HuggingFace: 118B total params, only 8B active per token, 1M context, open weights. Scores 71 on Terminal-Bench, beating models 10x larger (DeepSeek V4 Pro Max, Inkling, Nemotron 3 Ultra) and losing only to Kimi K3 (24x bigger). Fits on a single DGX Spark thanks to MoE, making datacenter-level performance possible on a desk.

• open-source
• 1M context
• MoE
• Poolside
• DGX Spark
• Laguna S 2.1
• 118B
• 8B active