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Morning Brief · October 28th 2026
Liquid AI releases LFM3, six small open models built on one backbone
Liquid AI released LFM3 on Tuesday, a family of six models of roughly 2 billion covering text, vision, audio, combined input and two . The text model, LFM3-1.7B, has a 256,000-token context and fits in about 1 GB at 4-bit precision. All six are on Hugging Face.
Liquid says it beats Qwen3.5-9B on and trails it badly on knowledge, 63.37 against 80.40 on . Companies with more than $10 million in annual revenue need a separate commercial license, so "open" here means free to small users. SourcesAA
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- AIntroducing LFM3 (Liquid AI)liquid.ai
- ALiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B (Hugging Face)huggingface.co
This story ran in the Morning Brief of October 28th 2026.