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Exploring Next — Ep 341 w/ Justy & Cody — American AI startup Poolside launches free, high-performing open model Laguna XS.2 for local agentic coding

Justy and Cody unpack Poolside’s new Laguna XS.2, an Apache 2.0 open model aimed at local agentic coding, plus the bigger Laguna M.1, the pool agent harness, and the shimmer coding environment.

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