Liquid AI releases LFM3, a family of six 2B-class multimodal models on one shared backbone, fine-tunable on a single GPU and built for edge deployment.

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BuilderYou can fine-tune a 2B multimodal model on a single GPU and ship it on-device, with text fitting in ~1 GB at 4-bit and a 256K context for local agents.
ResearcherA tri-hybrid conv/attention mix with head-wise gated attention and partial RoPE matches larger models per parameter and runs ~25% faster at 8K context.
InvestorLiquid AI is pushing specialized small multimodal models toward edge deployment, a distribution bet against large general-purpose models.

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