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Liquid AI releases LFM3-VL-2B with improved OCR, similar size

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Liquid AI has released LFM3-VL-2B, a multimodal model that offers improved OCR capabilities compared to its predecessor, LFM2-VL-1.6B, while maintaining a similar download size. The new model features a significantly restructured vision encoder and supports a 128K context window. While the model card highlights gains from a "thinking mode," benchmarks suggest that for tasks like OCR and screenshot analysis, disabling this mode yields better results and is more efficient. AI

IMPACT Offers improved OCR and multimodal capabilities, potentially impacting applications relying on visual understanding and text extraction.

RANK_REASON New multimodal model release from a recognized AI lab (Liquid AI). [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Liquid AI releases LFM3-VL-2B with improved OCR, similar size

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Alan West ·

    How to Run LFM3-VL-2B Locally: Better OCR Than LFM2-VL in the Same 1.25 GB

    <p>To run LFM3-VL-2B locally you download about 1.25 GB: the Q4_0 GGUF plus the Q8_0 vision projector. LFM2-VL-1.6B at Q4_0 plus its Q8_0 projector was 1.26 GB. Same download, and OCRBench goes from 72.9 to 82.2 before you even turn on the new thinking mode.</p> <p>Liquid AI ship…

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