LFM3 by Liquid AI
Six 2B-class models for phones, laptops and robots
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LFM3 is Liquid AI’s third generation of Liquid Foundation Models, with open weights and a shared backbone across text, vision, audio, omni and decision models. The first release is six 2B-class models, including a 1.7B text model that fits in about 1 GB at 4-bit and has a 256K context. Liquid says they run on phones, laptops and edge devices and can be fine-tuned on one GPU. Weights are on Hugging Face.
PH · launched Oct 28, 2026 · 120 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: large language models · 191 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
No LFM3 is a family of open-weight foundation models, which requires large-scale pretraining data, GPU clusters, and novel architecture research. Vibe coding cannot replicate that.
What it would actually take: Building an equivalent means designing a novel architecture (here a liquid or state-space variant) and curating trillions of tokens across text, vision, and audio. It requires a large GPU cluster, distributed training infrastructure, and a team of ML researchers for evaluation and alignment.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 58 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #7 of 59 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 304 days after the earliest competitor.
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- molten · github · 2026-10-25 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- V2Fun · ph · 2026-07-15 · 460 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- MiniMax H3 · ph · 2026-07-31 · 334 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- OLMo-core 3 · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Skyfall SKY-001 · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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