Liquid AI's 1.7B open model beats Baidu's ERNIE 5.0 on multi-turn instruction following

JosephJacks_ · x · 2026-11-12

Liquid AI's LFM3-1.7B open model sets a new SOTA on Multi-IF, scoring 89.1 on multi-turn, multilingual instruction following — beating Baidu's closed ERNIE 5.0 at 85.56, while Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Thinking, over 100x larger, scores 79.1.

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