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Liquid AI ships LFM2.5-8B-A1B on-device MoE model

Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-8B-A1B, a new on-device Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model designed for complex tasks and tool chaining. This model features 8.3 billion total parameters but activates only 1.5 billion per token, enabling efficient performance on consumer hardware. Key upgrades include an expanded 131,072 token context window, extensive pre-training on 38 trillion tokens, and advanced reinforcement learning to reduce hallucinations and improve reasoning. AI

IMPACT Enables more capable on-device AI applications with competitive performance and reduced hallucination rates.

RANK_REASON Model release from a frontier lab (Liquid AI) with system card.

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Liquid AI ships LFM2.5-8B-A1B on-device MoE model

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COVERAGE [5]

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    LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B

    text-generation · 0 downloads · 75 likes

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    LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B-GGUF

    text-generation · 42 downloads · 60 likes

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

    Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-8B-A1B: An On-Device MoE Model With 8.3B Total and 1.5B Active Parameters

    <p>Liquid AI's LFM2.5-8B-A1B activates 1.5B of 8.3B parameters, offering 128K context, reasoning, and tool calling on consumer hardware.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/05/28/liquid-ai-releases-lfm2-5-8b-a1b-an-on-device-moe-model-with-8-3b-total-and-1-…

  4. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/D2OQZG8l5BI1S06 ·

    LFM2.5-8B-A1B release

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  5. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 Français(FR) · /u/PauLabartaBajo ·

    Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-8B-A1B

    <table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1tqqnsl/liquid_ai_releases_lfm258ba1b/"> <img alt="Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-8B-A1B" src="https://preview.redd.it/qnmtsi0r404h1.jpeg?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=8fda9a7be5ca754b36cca79344a293c…