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Liquid AI

Company www.liquid.ai ● Covered in 12 stories + Follow ✴ AI Graph

Liquid AI is a company focused on deploying open AI models for on-device inference and tooling. Recent coverage includes releases of LFM2.5-2.6B for local agentic tool-calling with 128K context, LFM2.5-VL-3B for on-device vision-language screen understanding and tool calls (with multiple deployment formats), and LFM2.5 draft/speculative-decoding checkpoints via DSpark. The company has also published open-source benchmarking through Pipette, positioning evaluation around reproducible on-device unit configurations such as model plus quantization, runtime, and hardware.

Updated 16 September 2026

Signals

4 stories (-50%)

Media momentum

As of 17 Sep 2026 · Visible stories in the last 30 days, compared with the 30 days before.

4 sources

Source diversity

As of 17 Sep 2026 · Distinct publications behind this entity's visible coverage.

4 events

Release activity

As of 17 Sep 2026 · Model, product and open-source release events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.

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Funding signals

As of 17 Sep 2026 · Funding and acquisition events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.

Jul 2026 → Aug 2026

Coverage span

As of 17 Sep 2026 · First to most recent month of TLDRocket coverage of this entity.

Management

updated 2 Sep 2026

Recent changes

  • Caroline Hoogland left (was Marketing & Comms Lead)
  • Jeffrey Li Head of Product/GTM → COO

Latest developments

Liquid AI Open-Sources Pipette: A Reproducible Benchmarking Suite That Measures On-Device Models, Quantization, Runtime and Hardware Together MarkTechPost · 3 weeks ago · 34 Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-DSpark Draft Models That Deliver Up to 3.18x Faster Decoding Without Changing Model Outputs MarkTechPost · 3 weeks ago · 37
Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark Hugging Face · 3 weeks ago · 30
LFM2.5 Q4\_0 Checkpoints from Quantization-Aware Distillation Hugging Face · 4 weeks ago · 36 Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B: A 3B Vision-Language Model That Reads Screens, Grounds Objects, and Calls Tools On-Device MarkTechPost · 1 month ago · 26
LFM2.5-VL-3B for Better and Faster Vision Capabilities for the Edge Hugging Face · 1 month ago · 22 Nativ Runs AI Models Locally on Apple Silicon GitHub Pages · 1 month ago · 21 Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-2.6B: An On-Device Agentic Model With 128K Context, Tool Calling, And Open Weights MarkTechPost · 1 month ago · 45

Timeline

Month Quarter Year

August 2026

Liquid AI released DSpark draft model checkpoints for three LFM2.5 models, enabling speculative decoding to speed up inference Model release

Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-VL-3B, an on-device vision-language model for screen understanding, object grounding, and tool/function calling Model release

MacPaw and Liquid AI announce a partnership Partnership

Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-2.6B, an open-weight 2.6B parameter language model optimized for on-device agentic AI tasks Open source release

July 2026

Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-Encoder models for efficient long-context CPU inference Model release

Relationships

Products & technology

Partnerships

  • MacPaw partnered with this company · 1 source

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