Release2026-08-04

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B, a small open-weight model built to plan tasks and call external tools while running entirely on a laptop or phone rather than in the cloud. It fits in under 2.5 GB and generates 220 words-per-second-scale output on a high-end laptop processor, with day-one support for common local and server inference tools. The company notes that coding-heavy or more complex tasks are still better served by larger models.

What changed

Liquid AI's previous small models were less focused on tool-calling and multi-step agent work, and the earlier LFM2.5-8B-A1B used a much smaller instruction-tuning mix.

What it unlocks

Running an assistant that plans and calls tools entirely on a laptop or phone, with no per-token cloud cost and no data leaving the device.

  • 2.6B parameters, under 2.5 GB memory
  • 220 tokens/s on an M5 Max CPU, 113 on a Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 30 on a phone
  • pre-trained on ~34T tokens, 128K context, 128K vocabulary
  • ~15K output tokens/s at high concurrency on one H100, roughly 1.3B tokens per day

What you need to act on it

  • downloading the open weights from Hugging Face
  • serving the model locally behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint and connecting an agent harness

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