Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5 Encoders for Fast 8K Context CPU Inference
Liquid AI released two open-weight bidirectional encoder models, LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and 350M, optimized for long context. On CPU, the 230M model processes 8,192 tokens in 28 seconds—3.7x faster than ModernBERT-base.
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Liquid AI released two open-weight bidirectional encoder models, LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and 350M, optimized for long context. On CPU, the 230M model processes 8,192 tokens in 28 seconds—3.7x faster than ModernBERT-base.
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