Liquid AI's LFM3: Six 2B Open Models, One Shared Brain — and a 1GB Phone-Sized Agent
Liquid AI announced LFM3 on October 27, 2026, and the pitch is the opposite of the usual bigger-is-better launch: six open-weight models, all around 2 billion parameters, all branching from one shared backbone, built to run where the big models cannot — on a phone, a laptop, a Raspberry Pi. The text model, at 4-bit precision, takes about 1 GB of memory. That is the whole story in one number: an…
On October 27, 2026, Liquid AI unveiled LFM3, a collection of six open-weight models with around 2 billion parameters each, all branching from a shared backbone. The models are designed to run on devices with limited resources, such as phones, laptops, and Raspberry Pis. The text model, at 4-bit precision, requires only 1 GB of memory, making it small enough to live on the device it serves.
These are the key points of the story: Liquid AI announced LFM3 on October 27, 2026, the models branch from a shared backbone, are designed for low-resource devices, and are free under the LFM Open License v1.0 for companies with annual revenue under $10 million.
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