San Francisco startup Poolside has launched Laguna XS.2, a high-performing, Apache 2.0 open-weight AI model aimed at agentic coding—writing code and using tools locally. Developers can download it to run on a laptop with quantization, while the larger Laguna M.1 is temporarily offered for free via APIs. Poolside also introduced “pool” and “shimmer” to turn models into hands-on coding agents.
Xiaomi has launched MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the permissive MIT License, making them production-friendly and easy to run locally or on private clouds. Xiaomi’s benchmarks show the Pro model performing extremely well on “claw” agent tasks while consuming roughly 40–60% fewer tokens than top closed models—aimed squarely at cost-heavy, long-context automation.
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