Liquid AI LFM2.5-24B-A2B Is WILD… I Tested It Locally!
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B on Oct 13, 2026. It’s a 24B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 2.45B active, 131K context, built for agents.
Liquid AI’s benchmarks show it leading or matching Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on 5 of 8 agentic tests (LiveClaw 48.09 vs 38.19, AutomationBench 27.69 vs 8.72). The bigger model still wins on GPQA and SWE-bench Verified.
Liquid AI reports 184 tok/s on an M5 Max, and API pricing of $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $1.00 per 1M output tokens.
I ran it locally on a 24 GB MacBook Air M5 (Q4_K_M via llama.cpp). It passed text, long-context (23K tokens) and 5 tool-calling agent tests. Vision ran through the LFM2.5-VL-3B sibling model, because the 24B model is text-only.
Sources: Liquid AI blog https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b | Launch post https://x.com/liquidai/status/2110055807194931348
