Founder of a listed tool
Daniela Rus
Named behind 2 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What Daniela builds
LFM2.5-2.6B D · 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, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
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, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Alexander Amini Co-founder and Chief Science Officer
- Mathias Lechner Co-founder and CTO
- Ramin Hasani Co-founder and CEO
- Tim Seyde Post-training researcher at Liquid AI
Questions
Who is Daniela Rus?
Daniela Rus co-founded Liquid AI, which spun out of MIT CSAIL. She is director of CSAIL and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science at MIT, known for work in robotics and AI including distributed, soft and self-reconfiguring robots. She is a MacArthur fellow.
What does Liquid AI make?
Anchor Terminal lists LFM2.5-2.6B and Liquid d1 from Liquid AI. 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.
How are Daniela'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 (18)
- 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
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