What are the hardware requirements for LFM2 24B A2B MLX 8bit?

LFM2 24B A2B MLX 8bit requires approximately 25.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 125K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LFM2 24B A2B MLX 8bit and how large is it?

LFM2 24B A2B MLX 8bit is developed by LiquidAI, a model with 24b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate LFM2 24B A2B MLX 8bit?

LFM2 24B A2B MLX 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LFM2 24B A2B MLX 8bit by LiquidAI — VRAM 25.5GB, 125K context

Name: LFM2 24B A2B MLX 8bit
Author: LiquidAI

LFM2 24B A2B MLX 8bit is an open-source language model by LiquidAI. Features: 24b LLM, VRAM: 25.5GB, Context: 125K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2-24B-A2B-MLX-8bit

LFM2 24B A2B MLX 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM2 24B A2B MLX 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2-24B-A2B-MLX-8bit
Base Model(s)	LFM2 24B A2B LiquidAI/LFM2-24B-A2B
Model Size	24b
Required VRAM	25.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	LiquidAI
Model Type	lfm2_moe
Model Files	5.2 GB: 1-of-5 5.3 GB: 2-of-5 5.3 GB: 3-of-5 5.3 GB: 4-of-5 4.4 GB: 5-of-5
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Lfm2MoeForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	128000
Model Max Length	128000
Transformers Version	5.0.0rc1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	65536

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LFM2 24B A2B MLX 4bit	125K / 13.4 GB	183	10
LFM2 24B A2B MLX 6bit	125K / 19.5 GB	104	8
LFM2 24B A2B MLX 5bit	125K / 16.3 GB	84	6
LFM2 24B A2B	125K / 47.7 GB	13081	340
LFM2 24B A2B ONNX	125K / GB	98	13
LFM2 24B A2B MLX Bf16	125K / 48 GB	80	7

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