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LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

liquid/lfm-2.5-1.2b-instruct

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LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct is a compact, high-performance instruction-tuned model built for fast on-device AI. It delivers strong chat quality in a 1.2B parameter footprint, with efficient edge inference and broad runtime support.

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Jan 20, 2026

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LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct is a compact, high-performance instruction-tuned model built for fast on-device AI. It delivers strong chat quality in a 1.2B parameter footprint, with efficient edge inference and broad runtime support.

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has a 32,768 token context window.

LFM2.5-2.6B (free) is another text model from Liquid.

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct was released on January 20, 2026.

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