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日本語(JA) スマホで動く視覚言語モデル「LFM2.5-VL-3B」が登場、日本語対応でUI認識やOCRに活用できる https:// fed.brid.gy/r/https://gigazine .net/news/20260813-lfm2-5-vl-3b/

Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-VL-3B, a smartphone-compatible vision-language model

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Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-VL-3B, a lightweight vision-language model designed to run on smartphones. This open model, with 3.1 billion parameters and under 3.3GB of memory usage, supports OCR, UI recognition, and multiple languages including Japanese. Benchmarks show LFM2.5-VL-3B outperforming larger models like Gemma-4-E4B-it and Qwen3.5-4B on various processors, including those found in mobile devices, achieving a decoding speed of 20 tokens/sec on a Galaxy S26 Ultra. AI

IMPACT Enables on-device vision-language tasks, potentially accelerating mobile AI applications and reducing reliance on cloud processing.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-VL-3B, a smartphone-compatible vision-language model

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 日本語(JA) · [email protected] ·

    Visual language model "LFM2.5-VL-3B" that runs on smartphones is here, usable for UI recognition and OCR with Japanese language support

    スマホで動く視覚言語モデル「LFM2.5-VL-3B」が登場、日本語対応でUI認識やOCRに活用できる https:// fed.brid.gy/r/https://gigazine .net/news/20260813-lfm2-5-vl-3b/

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