AINews: Laguna S 2.1 undercuts DeepSeek v4 Flash on price while beating V4 Pro

Latent Space·low signal

Latent Space's AINews highlights the Laguna S 2.1 release from a smaller lab, positioned as cheaper than DeepSeek v4 Flash while outperforming V4 Pro. Single-source and vendor-claimed benchmarks, so treat the comparison as unverified. Still worth tracking as evidence that the price-performance frontier is now being pushed by neolabs rather than the majors.