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Liquid AI · LFM2.5

LFM2.5-2.6B

Open weightsGenerally availableNewlfm 1.0

Liquid AI's 2.6B open-weights model (Aug 2026) for on-device and edge deployment.

AA Intelligence
8.4#110 of 142
Price
Self-host
Output speed
—
Context window
128K tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#110 of 142
    8independentIntelligence Index v4.3; reasoning; estimatedArtificial Analysis: LFM2.5-2.6B ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • SciCode#94 of 94
    14.4%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: LFM2.5-2.6B ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#96 of 103
    4.5%independentTerminal-Bench 2.1; reasoningArtificial Analysis: LFM2.5-2.6B ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

Agents and tool use

  • GDPval-AA#97 of 103
    -22independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: LFM2.5-2.6B ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#119 of 142
    55.8%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: LFM2.5-2.6B ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#115 of 147
    6.2%independentno tools; reasoningArtificial Analysis: LFM2.5-2.6B ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#128 of 139
    0%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: LFM2.5-2.6B ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#127 of 139
    5.7%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: LFM2.5-2.6B ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
tau2-Bench Banking (AA) · reasoning7.2%independentArtificial Analysis: LFM2.5-2.6B ↗
AA-Omniscience Index · reasoning-10.9 indexindependentArtificial Analysis: LFM2.5-2.6B ↗

Specs

Released
August 4, 2026
Parameters
2.7B
Size class
Under 10B
Input
text
Output
text
Context
128K tokens
Max output
Not published

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