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Poolside (@poolsideai) says “Open weights are now our default,” announcing an…

Brief

Poolside (@poolsideai) announced that open weights are now their default and released Laguna M.1, described as their most capable model, on 2026-06-18. Laguna M.1 supports a 256K token context window, and both base and post-trained checkpoints are published on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license.

Why it matters

Poolside (@poolsideai) says “Open weights are now our default,” announcing an openness policy change tied to a new model release.

Key details

  • They released Laguna M.1 (their most capable model) with a 256K context length; both base and post-trained checkpoints are available on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license (announcement dated 2026-06-18).
Source evidence

"Open weights are now our default" huggingface.co/collections/p…

Poolside (@poolsideai)

Today we’re releasing the weights for Laguna M.1,
our most capable model to date, with a 256K context length.
Both base and post-trained checkpoints are now available on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0.

— https://nitter.net/poolsideai/status/2067623353230217448#m