Founder of a listed tool
Mathias Lechner
Named behind 2 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What Mathias 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 and CTO, 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 and CTO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Alexander Amini Co-founder and Chief Science Officer
- Daniela Rus Co-founder
- Ramin Hasani Co-founder and CEO
- Tim Seyde Post-training researcher at Liquid AI
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Who is Mathias Lechner?
Mathias Lechner is co-founder and CTO of Liquid AI, which builds the LFM2 family of efficient language models, and a research affiliate at MIT CSAIL working with Daniela Rus. He completed his PhD at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in 2022 and studied computer science at TU Wien.
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.
Who has invested in Liquid AI?
The sources our research read name AMD.
How are Mathias'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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