Liquid AI LFM2.5-2.6B: A Real AI Agent That Runs On Your Phone

Liquid AI just released LFM2.5-2.6B — an open-weight agentic model small enough to run on a phone, fast enough to stay responsive on a plain CPU, and capable enough to plan, call tools, and work through real multi-step tasks. No cloud, no per-token bill, and your data never leaves the device.

In this video: what makes it special, the specs, on-device speed (220 tok/s on an M5 Max, ~30 tok/s on a phone), how it beats models nearly 4x its size on instruction-following and tool use, the four-stage training recipe that gets it there, the reaction on X, and how to run your own local agent in two steps.

Model & docs:
• Blog: https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-2-6b
• Weights: https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B
• Docs: https://docs.liquid.ai/lfm/models/lfm25-2.6b