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Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B for fast on-device agents

Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model designed for on-device agents. This model activates approximately 2 billion parameters per token and is optimized for multi-step tool use rather than general chat. It demonstrates strong performance on agentic and tool-use benchmarks, outperforming larger models in specific tasks like AutomationBench, while larger models like Qwen3.6-35B-A3B show better results in knowledge and coding tasks. LFM2.5-24B-A2B is capable of running on consumer hardware such as Apple M5 Max and AMD Ryzen AI Max+ processors, offering fast local tool calling and instruction following. AI

IMPACT Enables more capable AI agents to run efficiently on consumer hardware, potentially accelerating on-device AI applications.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card.

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Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B for fast on-device agents

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  1. Hacker News — AI stories ≥50 points TIER_1 English(EN) · gmays ·

    LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents

  2. MarkTechPost TIER_1 English(EN) · Asif Razzaq ·

    Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B: A 2B-Active MoE for On-Device Agents

    <p>Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, an open-weight 24B Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model with 2B active parameters. It targets local agents, scoring 48.09 on LiveClaw and decoding 184 tokens/s on an Apple M5 Max.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/14…

  3. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · h4ckernews ·

    LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for Fast On-Device Agents https://www. liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b Comments: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5 0097369 # HackerNew

    LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for Fast On-Device Agents https://www. liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b Comments: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5 0097369 # HackerNews # LFM2 .5 # 24B # OnDevice # AI # FastAgents # LiquidAI

  4. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · CuratedHackerNews ·

    LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for Fast On-Device Agents https://www. liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b # ai

    LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for Fast On-Device Agents https://www. liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b # ai