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 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.
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