#"laguna-s-2-1"

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Hermes Agent + Laguna S 2.1: How to Build a Self-Improving AI Agent With an Open-Weight Coding Brain in 2026

Pair Nous Research's self-improving Hermes Agent with Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 — a 118B open-weight coding model — to build an AI agent that remembers, learns, and codes. Here's the full setup.

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Laguna S 2.1 Explained: How a 118B Mixture-of-Experts Model Beats Rivals 10× Its Size

Laguna S 2.1 is a 118B total / 8B-active open-weight coding model from Poolside that scores 70.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and runs on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark. Here's what makes it work.

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