
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B, an agentic model that runs entirely on-device. It plans, calls tools, and works through multi-step tasks on phones, laptops, PCs, and robots. The model has 2.69B total parameters, a 131,072-token context window, and a 128,000-token vocabulary. Pre-training used approximately 34 trillion tokens. Two checkpoints shipped: LFM2.5-2.6B-Base for fine-tuning, and LFM2.5-2.6B post-trained for agentic workloads. Because inference stays local, data never leaves the device
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B, a small artificial intelligence model with 2.69 billion parameters that can run directly on personal devices like phones, laptops, and robots without sending data to external servers. The model handles multi-step tasks, can use tools, and maintains a large context window of 128,000 tokens, allowing it to process long documents. It matters because on-device operation eliminates data privacy concerns, reduces costs to near zero per use, and enables deployment where internet connectivity or third-party APIs are unavailable or restricted, such as in regulated industries and air-gapped environments. The model is released as open weights in multiple formats and performs competitively on instruction-following and tool-use benchmarks against larger competitors, though Liquid AI notes it is not recommended for coding tasks or knowledge-heavy applications.

Long-horizon agents accumulate context faster than they resolve tasks. Every tool output, observation, and intermediate reasoning step stays in the window, and the two capabilities that matter — holding that context and staying coherent across it — have so far been available almost exclusively from cloud endpoints. That excludes regulated industries, public-sector institutions, and on-device applications, where the data is not permitted to leave the boundary at all. Pokee AI released Pokee-Isaa

Mistral AI has released Shieldstral 1.0 3B, an open-weights, policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that treats content moderation as a single yes/no question rather than a fixed taxonomy of harm categories. Most guardrail models bake their category list into the weights, so re-targeting one to a new deployment context means retraining — and the same content can be acceptable on a cybersecurity research tool while being harmful on a mental-health platform. Shieldstral inverts that: operat

NVIDIA Labs has open-sourced NOOA (NVIDIA Object-Oriented Agents), a model-agnostic Python framework for building AI agents. Agent development today is split across prompt templates, tool schemas, callback code, and workflow graphs. NOOA collapses all of it into one Python class. Methods are the actions the model can take. Fields are agent state. Docstrings are prompts. Type annotations are contracts the runtime enforces. A method whose body is ... is completed at runtime by an LLM-driven loop,
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