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Open weights are now Poolside's default approach, and the company will keep building toward the frontier while releasing increasingly capable models openly.

After releasing its flagship Laguna-M.1 model under Apache 2.0, Poolside publicly committed to open weights as its default going forward for future, increasingly capable models. ✦ AI generated

Poolside · Interconnects · 2026-06-28 · original ↗

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Poolside, which we covered in the last Artifacts, also released their flagship model under Apache 2.0! They also commit to open releases going forward: Open weights are now our default. We’ll keep building toward the frontier and releasing increasingly capable models in the open.

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▦ Poolside ✳ Laguna-M.1

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