When was LFM3 released?

Liquid AI announced LFM3 and published the open weights on 27 October 2026.

How big are the LFM3 models?

The first release covers models of about 2B parameters. The text model, LFM3-1.7B, has 1.7B parameters and fits in about 1 GB at 4-bit precision, according to Liquid AI.

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Open-weight multimodal model family

LFM3

LFM3 is the third generation of Liquid AI's Liquid Foundation Models, announced on 27 October 2026. The first release has six open-weight models of about 2B parameters for text, vision, audio, omni and decision tasks, all built on the LFM3-1.7B-Base backbone and designed to run and be fine-tuned on edge devices.

Last reviewed 28 Oct 2026 · by Liquid AI

Facts at a glance

Developer	Liquid AI
Released	27 October 2026 source
Models in first release	Six models of about 2B parameters: text, vision, audio, omni and two decision models source
Pre-training data	22T tokens source
Context window (text model)	256K tokens source
Architecture	24 layers: 13 gated short convolutions, 5 sliding-window attention, 6 global attention source
License	LFM Open License v1.0

Questions people ask

When was LFM3 released?: Liquid AI announced LFM3 and published the open weights on 27 October 2026.
How big are the LFM3 models?: The first release covers models of about 2B parameters. The text model, LFM3-1.7B, has 1.7B parameters and fits in about 1 GB at 4-bit precision, according to Liquid AI.