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Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-2.6B: An On-Device Agentic Model With 128K Context, Tool Calling, And Open Weights

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B, an agentic model that plans, calls tools, and completes multi-step tasks entirely on-device. The 2.69B parameter model pairs 22 double-gated short convolution blocks with 8 GQA blocks across 30 layers, handles 131,072 tokens of context, and decodes at 220 tokens/s on an M5 Max in under 2.5 GB. Open weights ship in GGUF, MLX, and ONNX. The post Liquid AI Releases…

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