Liquid AI Launches LFM2.5-2.6B: An On-Device Agentic Model
JosephJacks_ · x · 2026-08-06
Liquid AI has officially released LFM2.5-2.6B, an agentic model designed to run entirely on-device. It can plan, call tools, and work through multi-step tasks on phones, laptops, PCs, and robots while keeping data completely local.
Key Specs:
- Pre-trained on 34T tokens using the LFM2.5 flagship hybrid architecture.
- Supports 128K context length and a 128K vocabulary size.
- Offers balanced intelligence per watt, customizable on a single GPU, with LFM2 open-weight license.
Performance:
- Quantized (Q4) size is under 1.7GB, enabling it to run directly on smartphones.
- Achieves comparable or better scores than models up to 4x its size, such as Qwen3.5-9B and Gemma-4-E4B-it, on benchmarks like ToolSandbox and Multi-IF.
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