LFM2.5-2.6B

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B, a 2.6B-parameter open-weight model trained via supervised fine-tuning, teacher specialization, on-policy distillation, and agentic RL for local tool-use agents. The model claims competitive performance with models up to 4x its size on instruction-following, tool-use, and agentic benchmarks while running at 220 tok/s on Apple M5 Max hardware.