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Laguna XS.2
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by Poolside
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALWRITING HELPPROBLEM SOLVING
RANKED #140 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #185 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 4.7 · 2,227 VOICES ·
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A versatile text model for everyday writing and problem solving on your own machine.
HAPPY6.4
1 mentions
SAD8.6
7 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 2,228 voices in this window
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Laguna XS.2 once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
33.4B parameters (3B active MoE), a Q4 file is about 19 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$700 USEDINT4 / Q4_K_M, ~35 tok/s, 16k context
- SWEET SPOT
Apple Mac Studio M4 Max (36GB Unified Memory)
36 GB UNIFIED RAM
~$1999 NEWQ4_K_M or Q5_K_M, ~42 tok/s, 32k context via MLX/Ollama
- FULL POWER
Dual NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB (48GB total)
48 GB VRAM
~$3400 NEWBF16 / FP8, ~65 tok/s, 131k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN LAGUNA XS.2?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Laguna XS.2 takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB | SWEET SPOTApple Mac Studio M4 Max (36GB Unified Memory) | FULL POWERDual NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB (48GB total) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~14 S★★★★★ | ~12 S★★★★★ | ~8 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~43 S★★★★★ | ~36 S★★★★★ | ~23 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~3.8 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.2 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.1 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~12 MIN★★★★★ | ~9.9 MIN★★★★★ | ~6.4 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~7.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~6 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.8 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Community feedback on Laguna XS.2 is mixed regarding its price. While some users find it expensive, many feel the performance makes it worth the money.
172 POSTS · 2055 COMMENTS · X · REDDIT · GITHUB · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (5 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- People find it expensive (7 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceMIXED FEELINGS
5 thumbs up · 7 thumbs down
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Laguna XS.2.
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- REDDIT · 2026-04-30 · 318 UPVOTESLocal AI News You Missed - April 2026
Local AI News You Missed - April 2026
- REDDIT · 2026-08-19 · 124 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- REDDIT · 2026-07-22 · 116 UPVOTESLlama.cpp just added support for Laguna XS.2 & M.1
Llama.cpp just added support for Laguna XS.2 & M.1
- REDDIT · 2026-08-19 · 55 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- REDDIT · 2026-07-22 · 49 UPVOTESAdd support for Laguna XS.2 & M.1 by joerowell · Pull Request #25165 · ggml-org/llama.cpp
Add support for Laguna XS.2 & M.1 by joerowell · Pull Request #25165 · ggml-org/llama.cpp
- BLOG · 2026-05-16 · 32 UPVOTESLatest open artifacts (#21): Open model bonanza! Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2.6, MiMo 2.5, GLM-5.1 & others. On CAISI's V4 assessment.
This month was packed, with all open frontier labs, including DeepSeek, releasing new models. The latter prompted an evaluation by the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) , which has evaluated open models and their risks in the past. Their result…
- BLOG · 2026-05-16 · 32 UPVOTESRecent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed Attention
After a short family break, I am excited to be back and catching up on a busy few weeks of open-weight LLM releases. The thing that stood out to me is how much newer architectures are focused on long-context efficiency. As reasoning models and agent workflows…
- REDDIT · 2026-08-19 · 25 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- X · 2026-08-15 · 20 UPVOTESOpen problems move faster in the open. Last week @yukonresearch ran on @poolsideai's Laguna XS 2
Open problems move faster in the open. Last week @yukonresearch ran on @poolsideai's Laguna XS 2
- REDDIT · 2026-08-20 · 19 UPVOTESI fine tuned Qwen3 0.6b for better Spanish understanding. Tenorio 0.6b
I fine tuned Qwen3 0.6b for better Spanish understanding. Tenorio 0.6b
- REDDIT · 2026-08-19 · 18 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- REDDIT · 2026-04-28 · 17 UPVOTESPoolside AI launches Laguna XS.2 and Laguna M.1
Poolside AI launches Laguna XS.2 and Laguna M.1