Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-2.6B, a 2.6B model that rivals 4x larger models on agent tasks
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B on Monday, a 2.6-billion-parameter model designed to run capable AI agents entirely on consumer hardware. The model is available on Hugging Face with open weights and targets on-device deployment across laptops and phones. LFM2.5-2.6B achieves 220 tokens per second on an Apple M5 Max and 113 tokens per second on an AMD Ryzen CPU, fitting within 2.5 GB of memory. Liquid AI positions it as competitive with models roughly four times its size on tool use, instruction
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