https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b Dated changes, score moves with their causes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for LFM2.5-2.6B. en Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:59:57 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b#rev_3919 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b#rev_3919 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Liquid added a quantisation-aware source checkpoint to the GGUF repository on 22 September 2026, and the model card last changed on 24 August. LFM2-2.6B stays in its own repository with metadata pointing to 2.5, and Liquid's deprecations page names the replacement without a date. Liquid replied in 2 of 16 discussions, the last on 28 August, and a report about the card and a licence-threshold question wait. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b#rev_3920 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b#rev_3920 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Liquid's Q4_0 GGUF is 1.59 GB, about 1.9 GB with a fifth added, and BF16 is 5.4 GB, so hardware is no constraint. Liquid publishes GGUF, MLX and ONNX builds at many precisions. The LFM Open License v1.0 is free for commercial use only for organisations under $10M in annual revenue, and above that commercial use isn't licensed. A free OpenRouter endpoint served by Liquid is the only hosted route. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b#rev_3921 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b#rev_3921 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Liquid documents tools declared as a JSON list in the system prompt or through apply_chat_template, calls returned as a Python list between tool_call_start and tool_call_end, and the lfm2 parser for vLLM and SGLang. The card calls it a pure reasoning model, and the template opens every reply with a think tag, so thinking can't be turned off. JSON output isn't documented. Six independent Artificial Analysis results put tool tasks and long context lowest. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b#rev_3922 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b#rev_3922 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Liquid AI publishes no way to report a flaw in LFM2.5-2.6B. security.txt answers 404, there's no SECURITY.md, and the card's contacts are Discord and a sales form. The files are sound, safetensors and GGUF only, loaded natively by Transformers 5.0 or later from chat_template.jinja, with checksums in the LiquidAI organisation. The blog mentions a safety gate in the RL reward but publishes no results, and nothing covers injection or refusals. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing LFM2.5-2.6B is Liquid AI's open-weight 2.6B hybrid model of convolution and attention layers for on-device agents, with tool calling, thinking always on and a 131,072-token context, published on 4 August 2026 with Liquid's own GGUF, MLX and ONNX builds.