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Liquid AI releases open-weight LFM2.5-24B-A2B reasoning model for local agents

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Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24-billion-parameter reasoning model with 2 billion active parameters per token, with base and post-trained weights on Hugging Face.

The company says it runs on day one in llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, SGLang and ONNX, and is built for agents on laptops and PCs. SGLang and OpenRouter have since announced support, with OpenRouter offering the model for testing.

In Liquid AI's own benchmarks, the model scores 48.09 on LiveClaw against 38.19 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, and leads on five of eight agentic and tool-use tests. It trails larger models on knowledge-heavy and coding tests, including GPQA Diamond and SWE-Bench Verified (OpenCode). The model card says it is not recommended for knowledge-heavy tasks on its own and should be paired with retrieval or web search.

Liquid AI reports 184 tokens per second on an Apple M5 Max and up to 21,000 output tokens per second on a single NVIDIA B300. It says post-training uses reinforcement learning inside agent harnesses such as OpenClaw and Hermes Agent.

Written by AI from the articles below · updated Oct 13, 2:11 PM ET

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Developments

7 developments

  1. Oct 13, 2:00 PM ET · 1 article
    OpenRouter makes Liquid LFM 2.5 24B A2B available for trial
    OpenRouter: OpenRouter lists Liquid's LFM 2.5 24B A2B model for testing
  2. Oct 13, 2:00 PM ET · 1 article
    OpenRouter adds Liquid AI's LFM2.5-24B-A2B model
    OpenRouter: LFM2.5-24B-A2B from Liquid AI is now on OpenRouter
  3. Oct 13, 1:19 PM ET · 2 articles
    SGLang adds Day-0 support for LFM2.5-24B-A2B
    SGLang: SGLang adds Day-0 support for Liquid AI's LFM2.5-24B-A2B model
  4. Oct 13, 1:11 PM ET · 1 article
    Liquid AI says post-training runs reinforcement learning inside agent harnesses
    Liquid AI: Liquid AI says post-training runs reinforcement learning inside agent harnesses
  5. Oct 13, 1:11 PM ET · 1 article
    Liquid AI demos open-source Hermes Agent running locally on LFM2.5-24B-A2B
    Liquid AI: Liquid AI runs open-source Hermes Agent on LFM2.5-24B-A2B locally
  6. Oct 13, 1:11 PM ET · 1 article
    Liquid AI says its LFM2.5-24B-A2B model supports day-one inference on llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, SGLang and ONNX
    Liquid AI: Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B with day-one support across inference runtimes
  7. Oct 12, 1:35 AM ET · 6 articles
    Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, an open-weight on-device reasoning agent model
    Liquid AI Blog: Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B on-device agent model

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The articles in this story. Times are ET.

Oct 13
  1. OpenRouterOfficial
    OpenRouter lists Liquid's LFM 2.5 24B A2B model for testing

    AIOpenRouter links to a page where users can try the Liquid LFM 2.5 24B A2B model. The post gives no benchmark scores, pricing, or context length.

  2. OpenRouterOfficial
    LFM2.5-24B-A2B from Liquid AI is now on OpenRouter

    AIOpenRouter now offers LFM2.5-24B-A2B from Liquid AI, a 24B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 2B active parameters per token. The model reasons before answering and is built for agents and tool use.

  3. Liquid AIOfficial
    Liquid AI's LFM2.5-24B-A2B gets Day-0 support in SGLang

    AISGLang adds Day-0 support for Liquid AI's LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B MoE reasoning model with a 131K context window. The model scores 48.09 on LiveClaw and 27.69 on AutomationBench, versus 38.19 and 8.72 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B. It reaches up to 21K output tokens per second on a single NVIDIA B300.

  4. SGLangOfficial
    SGLang adds Day-0 support for Liquid AI's LFM2.5-24B-A2B model

    AISGLang announces Day-0 support for LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B-parameter mixture-of-experts reasoning model from Liquid AI with 2B active parameters and a 131K context window. The post reports 48.09 versus 38.19 on LiveClaw and 27.69 versus 8.72 on AutomationBench against Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, and up to 21K output tokens per second on a single NVIDIA B300. Liquid AI's post says the open base and post-trained weights are available on Hugging Face.

    Image from @sgl_project's post
  5. Liquid AIOfficial
    Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B model with open weights and API access

    AILiquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B-parameter model with 2B active parameters, with weights on Hugging Face and an API at console.liquid.ai. The post links to a blog, documentation, and a page for custom tuning jobs.

  6. Liquid AIOfficial
    Liquid AI says post-training runs reinforcement learning inside agent harnesses

    AILiquid AI says its post-training includes reinforcement learning inside agent harnesses such as OpenClaw, Hermes Agent by Nous Research, pi, and opencode. The model learns from tool calls and multi-turn tasks in those environments.

    Image from @liquidai's post
  7. Liquid AIOfficial
    Liquid AI runs open-source Hermes Agent on LFM2.5-24B-A2B locally

    AILiquid AI demonstrates the open-source desktop agent Hermes Agent running on its LFM2.5-24B-A2B model on a single laptop. The demo uses local model inference with no cloud model API calls or API keys.

    Video from @liquidai's post
  8. Liquid AIOfficialPick
    Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, its largest LFM2.5 model for local agent tasks

    AILiquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, the largest member of its LFM2.5 family, as an efficient local model for laptops and PCs running multi-step tasks in popular agent harnesses. The model has 24B total parameters, 2B active per token, a 131K-token context window, a 128K-token vocabulary and 33T pretraining tokens. Liquid AI says it performs competitively with Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on agentic and tool-use tasks, and open base and post-trained weights are available on Hugging Face.

    Image from @liquidai's post
  9. Liquid AIOfficial
    Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B with day-one support across inference runtimes

    AILiquid AI says its LFM2.5-24B-A2B model supports llama.cpp and GGUF, MLX for Apple Silicon, vLLM, SGLang, and ONNX on day one. The company reports 184 tokens/s decoding on an Apple M5 Max. Users can download the weights and fine-tune and deploy the model on their own hardware.

    Image from @liquidai's post
  10. Hugging Face BlogOfficialPick
    Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 2B-active reasoning model for on-device agents

    AILiquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B-parameter reasoning model with 2B active parameters per token, as open weights on Hugging Face. On its own benchmarks it scores 48.09 on LiveClaw versus 38.19 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and leads on five tool-use and agentic tests, but trails larger models on knowledge-heavy and coding benchmarks such as GPQA Diamond and SWE-Bench Verified (OpenCode). It reports 184 tokens per second on an Apple M5 Max and up to 21K output tokens per second on a single NVIDIA B300.

Oct 12
  1. Liquid AI BlogOfficialPick
    Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B on-device agent model

    AILiquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B-parameter reasoning model with 2B active parameters built for on-device agents. The company says it beats Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on five of eight agentic and tool-use benchmarks, scoring 48.09 on LiveClaw versus 38.19 and 27.69 on AutomationBench versus 8.72. It reports 184 tokens/s on an Apple M5 Max and up to 21K output tokens/s on a single NVIDIA B300 GPU, with open weights on Hugging Face.

  2. OpenRouter · New modelsBlog
    Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B mixture-of-experts reasoning model

    AILiquid AI's LFM2.5-24B-A2B is a mixture-of-experts reasoning model with 24B total and 2.45B active parameters. The model always reasons before answering and is built for agents that call tools. The feed supplied only an excerpt, so further details are not available from this source.

  3. Liquid AI · new models on Hugging FaceOfficialPick
    Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B reasoning model for on-device agents

    AILiquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B-parameter reasoning model with 2B active parameters, aimed at fast, private on-device agents. The card reports 48.09 on LiveClaw against 38.19 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and 184 tokens/s on an Apple M5 Max. Weights are available in Transformers, FP8, GGUF, ONNX, and MLX-4bit formats, with a 131,072-token context window.

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