Laguna AI Family Launches: M.1 Foundation Model and XS.2 Open-Weight Release
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Summary
The article announces the release of two new AI models in the Laguna family: Laguna M.1 (a foundation model that finished pre-training last year) and Laguna XS.2 (a smaller, open-weight model released under Apache 2.0 license). Both models are available for free for a limited time via API and OpenRouter, alongside the runtime used to train and operate agents, offered through two product experiences in research preview.
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Laguna XS.2 is a much smaller model, but remarkably capable for its size, and it's our first open-weight release.
Both models are free to use for a limited time via our API and on OpenRouter, and Laguna XS.2 weights are also available under an Apache 2.0 license.
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