What are the hardware requirements for LFM2.5 2.6B?

LFM2.5 2.6B requires approximately 5.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LFM2.5 2.6B and how large is it?

LFM2.5 2.6B is developed by LiquidAI, a model with 2.6b 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 LFM2.5 2.6B?

LFM2.5 2.6B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LFM2.5 2.6B by LiquidAI — VRAM 5.4GB, 128K context

Name: LFM2.5 2.6B
Author: LiquidAI

LFM2.5 2.6B is an open-source language model by LiquidAI. Features: 2.6b LLM, VRAM: 5.4GB, Context: 128K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.52.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B

LFM2.5 2.6B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM2.5 2.6B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B
Base Model(s)	LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base
Model Size	2.6b
Required VRAM	5.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	LiquidAI
Model Type	lfm2
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-2 0.1 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	ar zh en fr de hi id it ja ko pl pt ru es th vi
Model Architecture	Lfm2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	5.2.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	128000

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