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Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-2.6B: Efficient On-Device Agentic Model

ai-technology · 2026-08-04

Liquid AI has introduced LFM2.5-2.6B, a model boasting 2.6 billion parameters designed for on-device agentic AI tasks. This model has been pre-trained on an impressive 34 trillion tokens and includes a context window of 128K tokens. Its post-training process features supervised fine-tuning, teacher specialization, multi-domain on-policy distillation, and agentic reinforcement learning. The Agentic RL pipeline enhances performance through a Sandbox Service and Blackbox Harness, utilized by agents such as OpenClaw. Competing with larger models, LFM2.5-2.6B excels in instruction adherence and tool usage, achieving speeds of 220 tokens per second on the Apple M5 Max and 113 on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, while maintaining under 2.5 GB of memory usage. It is compatible with llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, SGLang, and ONNX, and can be accessed on Hugging Face.

Key facts

  • LFM2.5-2.6B is a 2.6B parameter model for on-device agentic AI.
  • Pre-trained on ~34T tokens with 128K context window.
  • Post-training: SFT, teacher specialization, MOPD, Agentic RL.
  • Agentic RL uses Sandbox Service, Blackbox Harness, Harness Proxy.
  • Benchmarks: competes with models 4x larger, tops instruction following and tool use.
  • Inference: 220 tok/s on Apple M5 Max, 113 tok/s on AMD Ryzen CPU.
  • Supports llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, SGLang, ONNX.
  • Available on Hugging Face today.
  • Browser demo and guides for OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Pi.

Entities

Institutions

  • Liquid AI
  • Hugging Face

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