# No cloud, no GPUs, no problem: Liquid AI's new model LFM2.5-2.6B brings powerful AI agents to devices as small as a Raspberry Pi

_Thursday, August 6, 2026 at 8:00 AM EDT · AI · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Liquid AI debuted LFM2.5-2.6B, a new open-weight language model designed for agentic workloads, earlier this week. The company said the model can run entirely on local hardware, from smartphones and laptops down to a Raspberry Pi, without relying on cloud inference or GPUs.

Maxime Labonne, Liquid AI's head of post-training, said in an interview with VentureBeat that the model runs very well on CPUs and works pretty fast on a Raspberry Pi. The model contains 2.6 billion parameters, supports a 128,000-token context window, and includes native tool calling.

Both the post-trained model and a base checkpoint are available now on Hugging Face with day-one support for major inference stacks including llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, SGLang, and ONNX.

## Sources

- [VentureBeat](https://venturebeat.com/technology/no-cloud-no-gpus-no-problem-liquid-ais-new-model-lfm2-5-2-6b-brings-powerful-ai-agents-to-devices-as-small-as-a-raspberry-pi)

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