[AINews] "Laguna S 2.1 Released: Cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash, Better than V4 Pro"

תקציר מקורי באנגליתReignited distillation wars conversation aside, today was more of the same of previous news cycles, which is a good day to release our interview with Eiso Kant , a new Western neolab that is somehow competitive with Thinking Machines (better benchmarks yet ~10x smaller) and more efficient than Chinese model equivalents. We can’t put it better than one of the Redditors you’ll see below: Cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash, Better than V4 Pro . Their secret? Eiso added it to their tech report , and we broke it down on the pod: AI News for 7/21/2026-7/22/2026. We checked 12 subreddits, 544 Twitters and no further Discords. AINews’ website lets you search all past issues. As a reminder, AINews is now a section of Latent Space . You can opt in/out of email frequencies! AI Twitter R