Organization
Liquid AI
Model developer · Developer platform · Cambridge, Massachusetts
Liquid AI is a company spun out of MIT CSAIL in 2023 that develops Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs), hybrid models built for efficient deployment on phones, laptops, and other devices. It publishes LFM weights on Hugging Face and offers LEAP, a platform for deploying models on edge devices.1673
Key facts
What is and isn’t public
Liquid AI publishes weights for its current LFM models on Hugging Face under the custom LFM Open License v1.0, which conditions commercial use on the licensee's legal entity not exceeding a threshold defined as annual revenue of US$10,000,000 or more. The model cards and release posts reviewed describe training at a high level but do not link training code or training data. LEAP and Apollo are delivery products. This catalog assesses openness per release.1011913147
Products
No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.
Other products
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEAP (Liquid Edge AI Platform) (external site: leap.liquid.ai) | Developer tool | Developer platform with an on-device SDK for iOS and Android, a model library, and fine-tuning and bundling tools for running LFMs and other small models locally on devices.73 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Liquid Apollo (external site: liquid.ai) | Other | Mobile app for iOS and Android that runs Liquid models locally on the device, presented as a way to try private, on-device AI without a cloud connection.83 | Sep 29, 2026 |
Related open artifacts
Model families
- LFM (Liquid Foundation Models)Model family
Model releases
- LFM2.5-2.6BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight
- LFM2.5-8B-A1BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight
Notable documented facts
- Liquid AI releases LFM weights under its own LFM Open License v1.0, which it describes as based on Apache 2.0. The license conditions commercial-use rights on the licensee's legal entity not exceeding a "Threshold" that it defines as annual revenue of US$10,000,000 or more, and states that commercial use by a legal entity that exceeds the Threshold is not licensed. The Threshold does not apply to a qualified non-profit organization's use for non-commercial or research purposes.1011
- In November 2025 Liquid AI published the LFM2 technical report, which describes the hybrid architecture of gated short convolutions with a small number of grouped-query attention blocks and the models' training pipeline.12
U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters
Liquid AI's privacy policy gives the company's contact address as Liquid AI, Inc., 314 Main Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and its July 2025 press release carries a Cambridge, Mass. dateline. SEC EDGAR lists the company as incorporated in Delaware and located in Massachusetts. The careers page describes the team as mainly in San Francisco and Boston with a presence in Tokyo; the Tokyo presence does not change the U.S. headquarters.2354
Sources
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