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title: "Liquid AI releases LFM3, six open-weight 2B-class multimodal models"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/liquid-ai-releases-lfm3-six-open-weight-2b-class-multimodal-models-47e8bb
source_name: "MarkTechPost"
source_url: https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/27/liquid-ai-lfm3-open-weight-2b-multimodal-models/
published: 2026-10-27T21:08:02.000Z
topics: ["llms", "open source"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# Liquid AI releases LFM3, six open-weight 2B-class multimodal models

*2026-10-27 · Source: [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/27/liquid-ai-lfm3-open-weight-2b-multimodal-models/)*

LFM3 covers text, vision, audio, omni and decision tasks. LFM3-1.7B uses a tri-hybrid backbone with a 256K context window and fits in about 1 GB at 4-bit quantization.

**Why it matters:** A long-context multimodal family that fits in roughly 1 GB targets phones and edge devices, where non-transformer hybrid architectures compete on memory efficiency. It adds to the recent wave of small local models for voice and agents, such as Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Bolt.

**Topics:** llms, open source

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