Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 lands, built on a "model factory" pipeline
Poolside released Laguna S 2.1, positioning it as cheaper than DeepSeek V4 Flash and stronger than V4 Pro, and it's climbing Hugging Face's trending list. Latent Space's interview with founder Eiso Kant details the integrated "model factory" pipeline behind it for training coding models. A signal that well-funded specialist labs are shipping competitive coding models fast.