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EnrichedFundingVentureBeatLive · 5d agoPublished 6/25/2026

Liquid AI's smallest model yet LFM2.5-230M beats models 4X its size at data extraction, can run 'anywhere'

Liquid AI, founded by former MIT computer scientists, today released its smallest AI language model yet, LFM2.5-230M , and enterprises would do well to consider it for their uses in data extraction and local deployment on smartphones, laptops and robotics. This is a 230-million-p

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Liquid AI, founded by former MIT computer scientists, today released its smallest AI language model yet, LFM2.5-230M , and enterprises would do well to consider it for their uses in data extraction and local deployment on smartphones, laptops and robotics. This is a 230-million-parameter foundation model explicitly designed for on-device agentic workflows, and as Liquid states in its release blog

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