Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 5, 2026Published at 1:48 AM EDT · New York
Liquid AI Ships a 2.6-Billion-Parameter Agent That Runs Entirely on a Phone
LFM2.5-2.6B reports 77.83 on the ToolSandbox agentic benchmark against 76.44 for Qwen3.5-9B, while staying under 2.5 gigabytes of memory.
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-2.6B, a 2.6-billion-parameter model built for tool calling and multi-step tasks that runs on phones, laptops and robots without a cloud call. The Russian-language technical channel AI ML Big Data described it a…
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