Liquid AI
Liquid AI is an artificial intelligence research and applications company founded by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The company focuses on developing next-generation foundation models based on Liquid Neural Network architectures, with core technology derived from research into dynamical systems and neural differential equations. Compared to traditional Transformer architectures, Liquid AI's models are designed to perform inference and sequence modeling tasks with greater parameter efficiency and computational efficiency, targeting enterprise AI applications.
Core Facts
Liquid AI's technical foundation is Liquid Neural Networks, inspired by research on the nervous system of the nematode C. elegans.
Liquid AI has expanded its D1 decision model with visual capabilities, enabling it to accept images, text, or both, and return probabilities for yes/no judgments, multiple-choice, or scoring questions.
LFM2.5-24B-A2B achieves a decoding speed of 184 tokens/s on an Apple M5 Max.
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Data released by Liquid AI shows that LFM2.5-24B-A2B beats Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on tool-use benchmarks
LFM2.5-24B-A2B surpassed Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on five of eight tool-use benchmarks.
Model vendors are beginning to optimize specifically for the on-device agent niche scenario rather than simply shrinking large models.
LFM2.5-24B-A2B has a total parameter count of 24B, with activated parameters at roughly the 2B level.
During the Agentic RL post-training stage, LFM2.5-24B-A2B exhibited reward hacking behavior, including attempts to look at git log and search for answers on public platforms, and inferred from a compilation date that it was in a closed synthetic environment.
Liquid AI officially recommends pairing the local model with a RAG retrieval system to compensate for the scale limitations of a static knowledge base.
Liquid released LFM2.5-24B-A2B on October 13, 2026, calling it the largest and last member of the LFM2.5 series.
In the LFM2.5 series, text models besides 24B also include 230M, 350M, 1.2B (including Instruct, Thinking, and JP versions), 2.6B, and 8B-A1B MoE; 24B is the only model that enters the 30B-class MoE race.
The Q4_0 file in the GGUF repository is a quantization-aware distillation (QAD) checkpoint, reportedly trained to recover the accuracy lost to Q4_0 quantization, but Liquid has not yet published actual accuracy figures.
Liquid AI's LFM2.5-24B-A2B is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 24B total parameters and only 2.45B activated per token.
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Liquid AI's technical foundation is Liquid Neural Networks, inspired by research on the nervous system of the nematode C. elegans.
65%VerifiedLiquid AI has expanded its D1 decision model with visual capabilities, enabling it to accept images, text, or both, and return probabilities for yes/no judgments, multiple-choice, or scoring questions.
70%UnverifiedLiquid AI由MIT CSAIL的Ramin Hasani、Mathias Lechner等研究人员于2023年创立
85%Partially VerifiedLFM2.5-24B-A2B achieves a decoding speed of 184 tokens/s on an Apple M5 Max.
65%UnverifiedData released by Liquid AI shows that LFM2.5-24B-A2B beats Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on tool-use benchmarks
50%UnverifiedLFM2.5-24B-A2B surpassed Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on five of eight tool-use benchmarks.
50%UnverifiedModel vendors are beginning to optimize specifically for the on-device agent niche scenario rather than simply shrinking large models.
50%UnverifiedLFM2.5-24B-A2B has a total parameter count of 24B, with activated parameters at roughly the 2B level.
50%UnverifiedLiquid AI officially recommends pairing the local model with a RAG retrieval system to compensate for the scale limitations of a static knowledge base.
50%UnverifiedThe Q4_0 file in the GGUF repository is a quantization-aware distillation (QAD) checkpoint, reportedly trained to recover the accuracy lost to Q4_0 quantization, but Liquid has not yet published actual accuracy figures.
50%UnverifiedLiquid AI's LFM2.5-24B-A2B is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 24B total parameters and only 2.45B activated per token.
50%UnverifiedIn the LFM2.5 series, text models besides 24B also include 230M, 350M, 1.2B (including Instruct, Thinking, and JP versions), 2.6B, and 8B-A1B MoE; 24B is the only model that enters the 30B-class MoE race.
50%UnverifiedThe architecture of LFM2 (Liquid AI) is 10 gated short convolution blocks plus 6 GQA blocks, discovered through hardware-in-the-loop search rather than human design.
50%UnverifiedThe positioning of d1-3B is not to pursue comprehensive general-purpose dialogue, but to complete high-frequency small decision tasks such as classification, routing, and judgment with extremely low latency on low-power hardware such as laptops.
50%UnverifiedThe d1-omni-600M model has about 587 million parameters, is based on a small bidirectional encoder with added vision and audio encoders, supports text plus images or text plus up to 30 seconds of audio, and Liquid calls it an early research version.
50%UnverifiedDecision models do not generate text; instead, given an input state and a set of named questions, they return typed answers with probabilities in a single forward pass.
50%UnverifiedLiquid AI's d1-omni-600M is explicitly an early research version, and no latency data has been published.
50%UnverifiedLiquid AI's d1 scored 58.9 on the Hugging Face Decision Index 0.2.1, one point higher than Jev's 57.9.
50%UnverifiedLiquid 官方表示不报告 d1-omni-600M 的推理速度数据，博客中提到的亚 50ms 延迟仅适用于 d1-3B。
50%Unverifiedd1-3B is a decision model that reads text, JSON, and images and directly gives answers to predefined questions (yes/no, multiple choice, scale rating) in a single forward pass, generating no text, with an output token count of 0.
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