# Alexander Amini (slim)

> Alexander Amini is co-founder and Chief Science Officer. LFM2.5-2.6B and Liquid d1 on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder and Chief Science Officer.

Alexander Amini is co-founder and chief science officer of Liquid AI and a research affiliate at MIT, where he earned his PhD in computer science in 2022. His research covers autonomy and safe decision-making for autonomous agents.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderamini

## What Alexander builds

- [LFM2.5-2.6B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b.md), graded D, 51.5/100, in Open-weight models. 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. Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, researched 2026-10-27.
- [Liquid d1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liquid-d1.md), graded E, 44.8/100, in Decision models. d1 is Liquid AI's decision model family. It answers typed yes or no, choice and score questions about text and images with probabilities, through the hosted d1 and d1-ultra models and the open-weight d1-3B and d1-omni-600M. Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Daniela Rus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/daniela-rus/), Co-founder
- [Mathias Lechner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mathias-lechner/), Co-founder and CTO
- [Ramin Hasani](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ramin-hasani/), Co-founder and CEO
- [Tim Seyde](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tim-seyde/), Post-training researcher at Liquid AI

## Backed by

- [AMD](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amd/)

## Questions

### Who is Alexander Amini?

Alexander Amini is co-founder and chief science officer of Liquid AI and a research affiliate at MIT, where he earned his PhD in computer science in 2022. His research covers autonomy and safe decision-making for autonomous agents.

### What does Liquid AI make?

Anchor Terminal lists LFM2.5-2.6B and Liquid d1 from Liquid AI.

### Who has invested in Liquid AI?

The sources our research read name AMD.

### How are Alexander's tools graded?

LFM2.5-2.6B is graded D, 51.5 out of 100; Liquid d1 is graded E, 44.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.liquid.ai/company
- https://www.raminhasani.com/#home
- https://www.liquid.ai/blog/d1-decision-model
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/raminhasani
- https://twitter.com/ramin_m_h
- https://mlech26l.github.io/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlech26l
- https://x.com/mlech26l
- https://www.mit.edu/~amini/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderamini
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniela-rus-220b3
- https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-2-6b
- https://tseyde.github.io
- https://x.com/timseyde
- https://www.liquid.ai/
- https://www.liquid.ai
- https://www.liquid.ai/connect
- https://docs.liquid.ai/lfm/models/lfm25-2.6b

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.