Liquid AI opens the LFM3 multimodal family
Liquid AI released six roughly 2B-class LFM3 models for text, vision, audio, omni and calibrated decision tasks. Open weights, API access and day-one support span Hugging Face, llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM and multiple hardware vendors.
Why it matters: A shared compact backbone across modalities creates a practical local-specialization option: teams can compare one small family for on-device agents, video, speech and decision outputs instead of stitching together unrelated large models.