https://derekwang2002.github.io/ai-intelligence/en/projects/lfm2-5-24b-a2b/ Material changes in AI models, agents, engineering and infrastructure, with primary sources and recommendations. en Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:56:00 GMT https://derekwang2002.github.io/ai-intelligence/en/events/ev-20261013-03/ ev-20261013-03-published Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:57:53 GMT New TRIAL <p>Liquid AI released base and post-trained weights for LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B-parameter mixture-of-experts model that activates 2B parameters per token. It targets reasoning and tool use across local devices and servers, with day-one support in llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, SGLang and ONNX. The custom license permits many commercial uses but excludes entities with at least $10 million in annual revenue unless separately licensed.</p><p><strong>Why read: </strong>LFM2.5-24B-A2B adds a 2B-active open-weight option for local agents; its license threshold and vendor benchmarks must be evaluated together.</p><p>Recommendation: TRIAL</p><p>Sources: <a href="https://huggingface.co/blog/LiquidAI/lfm25-24b-a2b">LFM2.5-24B-A2B release article</a> · <a href="https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B">LFM2.5-24B-A2B model card</a></p>