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Nobody independent has published results for it in at least two areas yet, so its weight is shared across the other four and the total is capped at 61 until they do or our own runs start." }, { "key": "reach", "name": "Reach", "weight": 25, "effectiveWeight": 38.46, "score": 80, "points": 30.77, "reason": "Memory 30, Liquid's Q4_K_M GGUF is 1.10 GB with its 0.17 GB projector file, and 1.27 GB × 1.2 = 1.5 GB, which fits 8 GB, well inside the 16 GB line. Runtimes 10, Released llama.cpp has the lfm3 architecture with the LFM3 audio projector and speech output (src/models/lfm3.cpp and tools/mtmd at b12242, with a realtime client example that starts this model), and Ollama's library has an lfm3-audio entry. Builds 15, Liquid's GGUF repository holds Q4_0, Q4_K_M, Q8_0, F16 and BF16 files, and Liquid publishes 4-bit and 8-bit MLX builds and an ONNX repository, all in the LiquidAI organisation. Terms 10, the LFM Open License v1.0, a custom licence that lets anyone use it commercially for free below a threshold of $10M annual revenue. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false for the model and its GGUF, MLX and ONNX repositories on 10 November 2026, so the files download with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 5, Liquid's own API lists lfm3-audio-2b among its models, so the publisher hosts it. 30 + 10 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 5 = 80.", "checked": "2026-11-10" }, { "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "weight": 20, "effectiveWeight": 30.77, "score": 40, "points": 12.31, "reason": "File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25). Provenance 15, files in the LiquidAI organisation, which Liquid's docs page for the model and its blog post link to (10). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card or in Liquid's blog post for the LFM3 family, neither of which mentions safety testing. Agent guidance 0, Nothing on prompt injection, an instruction hierarchy, what refusals cover or safeguards to add. Licence risk 10, 15 less 5 for the $10M annual revenue threshold on commercial use. Security programme 0, no way to report a flaw found. 15 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 10 + 0 = 40.", "checked": "2026-11-10" }, { "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 15.38, "score": 85, "points": 13.08, "reason": "Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (9,328 characters), with roles, audio, tools, deferred tools and tool results. Tool-calling format 25, the card and Liquid's tool-use page document tools passed through `tools=` in apply_chat_template, calls returned as XML and results sent back as tool messages. Trained tool calling 20, the template loops over every entry in an assistant turn's tool_calls, so several calls fit in one turn, and the card names turning spoken requests into tool calls as one of its four uses. Structured output 5, the card says the model is designed for structured outputs without saying how to ask for JSON. Liquid's API guide documents `response_format` with lfm3-1.7b as its example. Reasoning control 10, the card documents reasoning per request for text replies: the caller prefills the assistant turn with an open think tag to let the model reason, or a closed one for a direct answer, with a use_thinking example. Context 5, 32K tokens of input and output per the card. 20 + 25 + 20 + 5 + 10 + 5 = 85.", "checked": "2026-11-10" }, { "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 15.38, "score": 52, "points": 8, "reason": "Model card 17, Intended use (local agents, tool calling, structured outputs, fine-tuning), limitations (not recommended for agentic coding or complex multi-step reasoning, voice chat in English only), an architecture section, parameters (2B), context (32K) and 19 speech languages and locales. Training data 5, the card has no training section. Last change 20, the last commit, on 3 November 2026, changed the card's navigation icons, seven days before this check, and the one before it, on 31 October, edited the card. Responsiveness 0, Neither of the 2 discussions that aren't pull requests (27 and 31 October 2026) has a reply from a LiquidAI member. Version policy 5, LFM3 came out in new repositories and the LFM2.5 models stay in theirs. File health 5, the card gives a 32K context while config.json gives the language model 128,000 positions and Liquid's API lists 128,000 for the hosted model, so the card and the files don't agree on context. 17 + 5 + 20 + 0 + 5 + 5 = 52.", "checked": "2026-11-10" } ], "assessment": { "date": "2026-11-10", "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "notes": { "capability": "Pending for this listing. Independent results were found in 0 areas (none), and Capability needs 2. Its weight is shared across the other four categories and the total is capped at 61 until there are more, or our own runs start.", "interface": "Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (9,328 characters), with roles, audio, tools, deferred tools and tool results. Tool-calling format 25, the card and Liquid's tool-use page document tools passed through `tools=` in apply_chat_template, calls returned as XML and results sent back as tool messages. Trained tool calling 20, the template loops over every entry in an assistant turn's tool_calls, so several calls fit in one turn, and the card names turning spoken requests into tool calls as one of its four uses. Structured output 5, the card says the model is designed for structured outputs without saying how to ask for JSON. Liquid's API guide documents `response_format` with lfm3-1.7b as its example. Reasoning control 10, the card documents reasoning per request for text replies: the caller prefills the assistant turn with an open think tag to let the model reason, or a closed one for a direct answer, with a use_thinking example. Context 5, 32K tokens of input and output per the card. 20 + 25 + 20 + 5 + 10 + 5 = 85.", "reach": "Memory 30, Liquid's Q4_K_M GGUF is 1.10 GB with its 0.17 GB projector file, and 1.27 GB × 1.2 = 1.5 GB, which fits 8 GB, well inside the 16 GB line. Runtimes 10, Released llama.cpp has the lfm3 architecture with the LFM3 audio projector and speech output (src/models/lfm3.cpp and tools/mtmd at b12242, with a realtime client example that starts this model), and Ollama's library has an lfm3-audio entry. Builds 15, Liquid's GGUF repository holds Q4_0, Q4_K_M, Q8_0, F16 and BF16 files, and Liquid publishes 4-bit and 8-bit MLX builds and an ONNX repository, all in the LiquidAI organisation. Terms 10, the LFM Open License v1.0, a custom licence that lets anyone use it commercially for free below a threshold of $10M annual revenue. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false for the model and its GGUF, MLX and ONNX repositories on 10 November 2026, so the files download with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 5, Liquid's own API lists lfm3-audio-2b among its models, so the publisher hosts it. 30 + 10 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 5 = 80.", "risk": "File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25). Provenance 15, files in the LiquidAI organisation, which Liquid's docs page for the model and its blog post link to (10). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card or in Liquid's blog post for the LFM3 family, neither of which mentions safety testing. Agent guidance 0, Nothing on prompt injection, an instruction hierarchy, what refusals cover or safeguards to add. Licence risk 10, 15 less 5 for the $10M annual revenue threshold on commercial use. Security programme 0, no way to report a flaw found. 15 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 10 + 0 = 40.", "upkeep": "Model card 17, Intended use (local agents, tool calling, structured outputs, fine-tuning), limitations (not recommended for agentic coding or complex multi-step reasoning, voice chat in English only), an architecture section, parameters (2B), context (32K) and 19 speech languages and locales. Training data 5, the card has no training section. Last change 20, the last commit, on 3 November 2026, changed the card's navigation icons, seven days before this check, and the one before it, on 31 October, edited the card. Responsiveness 0, Neither of the 2 discussions that aren't pull requests (27 and 31 October 2026) has a reply from a LiquidAI member. Version policy 5, LFM3 came out in new repositories and the LFM2.5 models stay in theirs. File health 5, the card gives a 32K context while config.json gives the language model 128,000 positions and Liquid's API lists 128,000 for the hosted model, so the card and the files don't agree on context. 17 + 5 + 20 + 0 + 5 + 5 = 52." }, "sources": [ { "what": "model card", "url": "https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "gating, dates, parameter count, downloads, likes, file list and hashes", "url": "https://huggingface.co/api/models/LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B?blobs=true", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "inference providers, none mapped", "url": "https://huggingface.co/api/models/LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B?expand[]=inferenceProviderMapping", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "commit history", "url": "https://huggingface.co/api/models/LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B/commits/main", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "architecture, auto_map and context length", "url": "https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B/raw/main/config.json", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "chat template", "url": "https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B/raw/main/chat_template.jinja", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "licence, head read", "url": "https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B/raw/main/LICENSE", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "discussions, replies counted by script from authors, dates and member flags", "url": "https://huggingface.co/api/models/LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B/discussions", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "Liquid's LFM3 repositories, their dates and downloads", "url": "https://huggingface.co/api/models?author=LiquidAI\u0026search=LFM3", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "Liquid's GGUF files and sizes", "url": "https://huggingface.co/api/models/LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B-GGUF?blobs=true", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "Liquid's 4-bit MLX build", "url": "https://huggingface.co/api/models/LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B-MLX-4bit?blobs=true", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "Ollama's library tags", "url": "https://ollama.com/library/lfm3-audio/tags", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "LM Studio's catalogue, lfm3-vl-2b listed and no page for the others", "url": "https://lmstudio.ai/models/liquid/lfm3-vl-2b", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "llama.cpp b12242, the lfm3 architecture (shallow clone)", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/b12242/src/models/lfm3.cpp", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "llama.cpp b12242, LFM3 conversion with the vision and audio projectors", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/b12242/conversion/lfm3.py", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "vLLM v0.33.0 registry, no lfm3", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vllm-project/vllm/v0.33.0/vllm/model_executor/models/registry.py", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "SGLang v0.5.23 and Transformers v5.22.2, no lfm3 (shallow clones searched)", "url": "https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/tree/v0.5.23/python/sglang/srt/models", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "Liquid's docs page for the model", "url": "https://docs.liquid.ai/lfm/models/lfm3-audio-2b", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "Liquid's tool-use page", "url": "https://docs.liquid.ai/lfm/key-concepts/tool-use", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "Liquid's chat-template page", "url": "https://docs.liquid.ai/lfm/key-concepts/chat-template", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "Liquid's API model list", "url": "https://docs.liquid.ai/api/models", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "Liquid's API text-generation guide, structured output", "url": "https://docs.liquid.ai/api/guides/text-generation", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "Liquid's deprecations page", "url": "https://docs.liquid.ai/lfm/help/deprecations", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "Liquid's LFM3 blog post, 27 October 2026", "url": "https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm3", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "security.txt, 404", "url": "https://www.liquid.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "robots.txt for docs.liquid.ai and www.liquid.ai", "url": "https://docs.liquid.ai/robots.txt", "seen": "2026-11-10" } ], "openQuestions": [ "Capability is pending because no independent results were looked up on the day. The model is two weeks old", "Listed under open-weights beside the omni models because it chats and calls tools. It also transcribes and synthesises speech, so speech-to-text is the other candidate", "LM Studio is not credited because its catalogue has no entry for this model, though it runs the lfm3 architecture for LFM3-VL-2B", "File safety takes 10 off for the repository's Python although the GGUF builds, the ones most agents will use, run none of it", "Context is 5 on the card's 32K although config.json and Liquid's API both say 128,000. If the card is out of date, Context is 10 and File health 10", "Whether Ollama's library build of this model speaks or sees as the weights can wasn't checked, only that the entry exists", "unchecked on 10 November: Liquid's licence text beyond its head, company pages and trust centre, read for the LFM2.5-2.6B listing on 21 October and 4 November, and the prices in Liquid's console" ] }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A 2B model that listens and speaks on an 8 GB machine, transcribes and translates 19 languages and turns spoken requests into tool calls. Only llama.cpp and Ollama run it in a release. The context is 32K, voice chat is English only, Liquid hasn't answered the repository's questions, and there are no safety results or data sources.", "bestFor": "Voice agents on a laptop or phone that need speech in, speech out and tool calls from one small model", "strengths": [ "Speech in and speech out on an 8 GB machine, streamed", "Transcribes, speaks and translates 19 languages and locales", "Tool calls from spoken requests, in a documented format", "Reasoning can be turned on per text reply", "Liquid's own API serves it" ], "weaknesses": [ "Only llama.cpp and Ollama run it in a release, though the card lists vLLM and SGLang", "A 32K-token context", "Voice chat is English only", "Neither question on the repository has a reply from Liquid", "Loading in Transformers runs code from the repository", "No safety results, security contact or training data description" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start it with `llama-server -hf LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja` or `ollama run lfm3-audio`", "llama.cpp ships examples/realtime_client.py for live speech with this model", "Prefill the assistant turn with an open think tag to let it reason before a text reply", "The context is 32K", "Voice chat is English only, while transcription, synthesis and translation cover 19 languages and locales", "Liquid doesn't recommend it for agentic coding or complex multi-step reasoning" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 61 } ], "editorialScores": { "interface": 85, "reach": 80, "risk": 40, "upkeep": 52 }, "provenanceScore": 73, "checked": { "categories": { "interface": "2026-11-10", "reach": "2026-11-10", "risk": "2026-11-10", "upkeep": "2026-11-10" }, "last": "2026-11-10", "oldest": "2026-11-10", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 }, "scoreHistory": [ { "date": "2026-11-10", "grade": "C", "kind": "listed", "method": "0.7", "score": 61 } ] }, "connect": { "install": "llama-server -hf LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja\n# or\nollama run lfm3-audio", "http": "curl http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n -d '{\"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/lfm3-audio-2b" }, "sameCompany": [ "liquid-d1", "lfm2-5-2-6b", "lfm3-1-7b", "lfm3-omni-2b", "lfm3-vl-2b" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Liquid AI", "builtOn": "The LFM3 backbone (Liquid's own; the metadata names no base model)", "params": "2.00B", "context": 32000, "goodFor": "Small on-device audio model for voice chat, transcription, speech synthesis and translation in 19 languages and locales, questions about recordings and tool calls from spoken requests. Voice chat is English only.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama" ], "builds": [ { "name": "LFM3-Audio-2B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 4.16, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "Transformers" ], "note": "Loads in Transformers with the repository's own code. Liquid also publishes an ONNX repository. It has no FP8 or NVFP4 build of this model" }, { "name": "LFM3-Audio-2B-GGUF Q8_0", "url": "https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 2.15, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "LFM3-Audio-2B-Q8_0.gguf (1.85 GB) plus mmproj-LFM3-Audio-2B-Q8_0.gguf (0.30 GB)" }, { "name": "LFM3-Audio-2B-GGUF Q4_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 1.27, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "LFM3-Audio-2B-Q4_K_M.gguf (1.10 GB) plus Liquid's projector file mmproj-LFM3-Audio-2B-Q4_K_M.gguf (0.17 GB), from the Hub's file list. The repository also holds Q4_0, Q8_0, F16 and BF16 files" }, { "name": "LFM3-Audio-2B-MLX-4bit", "url": "https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B-MLX-4bit", "who": "publisher", "precision": "4bit", "sizeGB": 1.73, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "mlx", "runsOn": [ "MLX-VLM" ], "note": "Liquid also publishes 8-bit and BF16 MLX builds" }, { "name": "ollama lfm3-audio", "url": "https://ollama.com/library/lfm3-audio", "who": "ollama", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 1.7, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "ollama", "runsOn": [ "Ollama" ], "note": "Ollama's library build, size as its tags page shows it on 10 November 2026. The library also has q8_0, bf16, mxfp8 and nvfp4 tags" } ], "run": "llama-server -hf LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja", "runBuild": "LFM3-Audio-2B-GGUF Q4_K_M", "checked": "2026-11-10", "minMemoryGB": 8 }, "family": { "lab": "Liquid AI", "family": "LFM3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#liquid", "others": [ { "name": "LFM3-1.7B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B-Base", "params": "1.73B" }, { "name": "LFM3-1.7B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B", "params": "1.73B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm3-1-7b" }, { "name": "LFM3-VL-2B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-VL-2B", "params": "1.92B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm3-vl-2b" }, { "name": "LFM3-Omni-2B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-Omni-2B", "params": "2.17B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm3-omni-2b" } ] }, "notable": [ "11,560 downloads in the last 30 days and 246 likes on Hugging Face on 10 November 2026, two weeks after release, and 136,170 downloads for Liquid's GGUF repository (https://huggingface.co/api/models?author=LiquidAI\u0026search=LFM3)", "The card reports speech benchmarks and streaming performance on a single CPU thread. These are Liquid's numbers, not our measurement (https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B)", "Released on 27 October 2026 with the rest of the LFM3 family, which puts text, vision, audio, omni and decision models on one backbone (https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm3)", "Liquid's API serves it as lfm3-audio-2b (https://docs.liquid.ai/api/models)", "The tool-call format changed from LFM2.5's to a superset of qwen3_coder, and tools can be deferred until a search tool returns them (https://docs.liquid.ai/lfm/key-concepts/tool-use)", "Loading it in Transformers runs 9 Python files from the repository, since Transformers 5.22.2 has no LFM3 code of its own. The GGUF builds need none (https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B/tree/main)" ], "area": "models", "details": [ { "label": "Surface graded", "value": "The open weights at huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B and Liquid's GGUF, MLX and ONNX repositories, read from the model card, the files and their metadata, the chat template, the head of the licence, Liquid's docs and blog post, Ollama's library, LM Studio's catalogue and the runtimes' own code at their latest releases on 10 November 2026. Liquid's licence terms, company pages and security.txt were read for the LFM2.5-2.6B listing on 21 October and 4 November, and security.txt again today. Nothing was downloaded or run" }, { "label": "Model", "value": "2,002,332,928 parameters in the files (2B on the card): the LFM3 backbone, a causal audio encoder that works at 16 kHz and the LiquidCodec audio tokenizer, which codes 80 ms of speech as 12 tokens. Text or audio in; text, 24 kHz speech or the two interleaved out, streamed. It transcribes, speaks and translates speech, answers questions about recordings and can reason before a text reply" }, { "label": "Built on", "value": "The LFM3 backbone, per the card. The repository's metadata names no base model, and the licence is the same LFM Open License v1.0" }, { "label": "Files", "value": "Safetensors in BF16 (4.17 GB for the repository) with chat_template.jinja, config, tokenizer, a LICENSE file and 9 Python files that Transformers loads as the model's code. No pickle files. Hugging Face lists a SHA-256 for each of the 3 large files" }, { "label": "Licence", "value": "LFM Open License v1.0, Apache-like terms (copyright and patent grants, redistribution with notices) with a commercial-use limit. Commercial use is licensed only for legal entities under $10M in annual revenue, as read in full for the LFM2.5-2.6B listing. The LICENSE file is in the repository" }, { "label": "Runtimes", "value": "Released llama.cpp has the lfm3 architecture with the LFM3 audio projector and speech output (src/models/lfm3.cpp and tools/mtmd at b12242, with a realtime client example that starts this model), and Ollama's library has an lfm3-audio entry. The card names vLLM and SGLang for the BF16 weights, and neither 0.33.0 nor 0.5.23 has lfm3 code. Transformers 5.22.2 loads it only through the repository's own Python, and LM Studio's catalogue has no entry for it. The card asks for transformers 5.20.2 or later with trust_remote_code" }, { "label": "Context", "value": "32K tokens of input and output per the card. config.json gives the language model 128,000 positions and Liquid's API lists the hosted model at 128,000, but the card's figure is the one counted" }, { "label": "Tools and reasoning", "value": "Tools go in through `tools=` in apply_chat_template and calls come back as XML, a superset of the qwen3_coder format, which Liquid's docs name as the parser for vLLM. Tools marked `defer_loading` stay out of the prompt until a search tool returns them. The card documents reasoning per request for text replies: the caller prefills the assistant turn with an open think tag to let the model reason, or a closed one for a direct answer, with a use_thinking example. Speech replies don't reason" }, { "label": "Hardware", "value": "No memory figure on the card. 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