Poolside Laguna S 2.1 Is Alright

I try every new small model that comes along. At the very least, I’ll give it a run through my Nelson security auditing benchmark suite to see if the new thing can topple the current tiny model champs, Gemma 4 31B and Qwen 3.6 27B, which are very closely matched and punch well above their weight, defeating several much larger models. Poolside has released a few models, and I’ve tried Laguna XS.