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Liquid AI

What Liquid AI does

Liquid AI is an efficiency-first foundation model company building “Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs)” and an accompanying developer platform for deploying them on-device and on-prem. The company characterizes its models as general-purpose, lightweight, and optimized for fast, private, and compute-efficient inference across hardware classes (CPU/GPU/NPU) and deployment environments (consumer devices, vehicles, enterprise servers, and hybrid setups). Liquid’s product surface is centered on its model family (LFMs, including language, vision-language, and agentic variants), a developer toolchain for selecting, customizing, and packaging models for edge deployment (LEAP), and a consumer/mobile “vibe check” app for running models locally (Liquid Apollo).

News

Company record

Aug 24, 2026 · Official · Liquid AI BlogIntroducing Pipette: A benchmarking suite for on-device intelligence

Liquid AI and Artificial Analysis release Pipette, an open-source platform for benchmarking foundation models on edge devices, with a public dataset of lab-verified results across model/runtime/device/quantization/context configurations.

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Aug 05, 2026 · Official · Liquid AI BlogMacPaw Partners with Liquid AI to Bring On-Device AI to Millions of Mac Users

MacPaw and Liquid AI announce a strategic partnership to co-develop the local AI technology stack for macOS, positioning MacPaw’s Eney assistant as the first product to benefit from the collaboration.

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Aug 04, 2026 · Official · Liquid AI BlogLFM2.5-2.6B: Deploy Agents Everywhere

Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-2.6B, described as an agentic on-device model intended to power local planning and tool use without relying on cloud APIs.

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Apr 23, 2026 · Official · Liquid AI PressLiquid AI and Mercedes-Benz partner to scale embedded in-car intelligence

Liquid AI and Mercedes-Benz announce a multi-year partnership to scale embedded, on-device intelligence for Mercedes-Benz models with third- and fourth-generation MBUX in North America, targeting advanced speech technology for the second half of 2026.

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Mar 03, 2026 · Official · Liquid AI PressLiquid AI and Insilico Medicine Announce Strategic Partnership Delivering Lightweight Scientific Foundation Models for Drug Discovery

Liquid AI and Insilico Medicine announce a strategic partnership aimed at delivering lightweight scientific foundation models for drug discovery, describing on-premise workflows and training/deployment through MMAI Gym.

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Sep 16, 2025 · Official · Liquid AI PressBrilliant Labs Partners With Liquid AI to Bring Vision-Language Tech to Your Glasses

Brilliant Labs and Liquid AI announce a partnership for Halo glasses, describing Halo as powered by Liquid’s LFM2-VL-450M and outlining latency/CPU/GPU target behavior and shipment timing.

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Jul 15, 2025 · Official · Liquid AI BlogLiquid AI Launches LEAP and Liquid Apollo: The Easiest Way to Build with On-Device AI

Liquid AI launches LEAP (developer platform) and Liquid Apollo (mobile app) and frames them as a path to local edge AI development and testing.

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Dec 13, 2024 · Official · Liquid AI BlogWe raised $250M to scale capable and efficient general-purpose AI

Liquid AI announces the closing of a $250M funding round and describes planned uses including scaling compute infrastructure and accelerating edge/on-prem readiness of Liquid Foundation Models.

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Funding

Latest disclosed valuation$2B
Tracked capital$334.1M3 sourced rounds

What it builds

Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs)

Liquid’s foundation model family, presented as lightweight, general-purpose generative models intended for efficient deployment “anywhere,” including edge and enterprise settings.

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Liquid Edge AI Platform (LEAP)

A developer platform for building and deploying edge AI applications, described as an end-to-end toolchain spanning model selection, customization/fine-tuning, and on-device deployment (including an edge SDK and model bundling).

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Liquid Apollo

A lightweight iOS/consumer app for running and testing Liquid models locally (described as a “cloud-free playground” and later positioned as part of the LEAP workflow).

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Liquid Playground

Liquid’s model testing playground for trying LFMs.

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Milestones & partnerships

Aug 24, 2026
Released Pipette on-device benchmarking platform

Liquid AI releases Pipette with a public dataset and reproducibility-oriented benchmarking workflow for deployed edge systems.

Artificial Analysis (described partnership)
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Aug 04, 2026
Released LFM2.5-2.6B for on-device agentic workloads

Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-2.6B described as running entirely on-device for agentic workflows including tool calling.

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Feb 24, 2026
Released LFM2-24B-A2B (largest LFM2 checkpoint)

Liquid AI releases LFM2-24B-A2B and describes it as sparse MoE (24B total parameters, with reduced active parameters per token) and open-weight availability.

Hugging Face (described distribution)
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Jul 15, 2025
Launched LEAP and Liquid Apollo

Liquid AI launches its developer toolchain (LEAP) and mobile app (Liquid Apollo), positioning them as enabling on-device AI development, testing, and deployment.

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Jul 10, 2025
LFM2 launched as open-weight series (press release)

Liquid AI announces LFM2 launch and its open-weight availability, describing performance/efficiency claims and integration into its edge platform and iOS-native testing app in the following days.

Hugging Face (described distribution) · Liquid Playground (described availability)
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Sep 30, 2024
Announced first series of Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs)

Liquid AI announces its first LFM series (1B, 3B, and a 40B MoE variant), describing a first-principles architecture approach and deployment-oriented optimization goals.

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Spun out of MIT CSAIL; founders announced

Liquid AI presents its origin story as a MIT CSAIL spinout with four founders and a mission centered on general-purpose efficient AI systems.

MIT CSAIL (described origin)
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