Liquid AI LFM2.5-24B: 2B Active MoE on Apple M5 Max
Liquid AI claims 184 tok/s on Apple M5 Max with 2.45B active compute, but LFM2.5-24B requires 15GB RAM, crushing 16GB laptops and lagging on SWE-bench.
Independent analysis, benchmarks, and field intelligence on AI models, chips, computing, and defence systems.
Liquid AI claims 184 tok/s on Apple M5 Max with 2.45B active compute, but LFM2.5-24B requires 15GB RAM, crushing 16GB laptops and lagging on SWE-bench.
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