A 24B model that activates only 2B parameters: on-device agents hit 184 tokens/s and beat larger MoEs at tool use
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B-parameter reasoning model with just 2B active parameters per token, built for fast private agents on-device. Versus its predecessor LFM2-24B-A2B, it extends context from 32,768 to 131,072 tokens, doubles the vocabulary from 65K to 128K, scales pretraining from 17T to 33T tokens, and becomes reasoning-only, emitting an explicit chain of thought before its answer. It matches or leads Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, which has about 50% more total and active parameters, on five of eight tool-use and agentic benchmarks, scoring 27.69 versus 8.72 on AutomationBench, and decodes 184 tokens/s on an Apple M5 Max and over 21K output tokens/s on a single NVIDIA B300 GPU.