Poolside Laguna, Suspected to Be Based on Qwen

·2026.07.23 16:19

Key point

Poolside's Laguna model claims to be its own model when asked in English, but admits to being based on Qwen when asked in Chinese.

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A community user conducted an experiment asking the Poolside Laguna model about its identity, and found that the answer changes depending on the language of the question.

When asked in English: claims to be Poolside Laguna
When asked in Chinese: admits to being a model based on Qwen

This suggests that Laguna may be a fine-tuned model based on Qwen, and could lead to a transparency controversy given that Poolside has not disclosed the source of its base model.

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