Liquid AI releases LFM3-VL vision-language models with custom efficient vision encoder

JosephJacks_ · x · 2026-11-05

Liquid AI shipped LFM3-VL (e.g. the 2B variant on Hugging Face), explaining that with large images or long video the vision encoder can consume more compute than the language model itself, so they built a custom vision encoder and a mid-training pipeline designed for efficiency.

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