Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M: Bidirectional Encoders That Stay Fast at 8K Context on CPU

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<p>Liquid AI released two open-weight bidirectional encoders, LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M. Both carry an 8,192-token context and are built on the LFM2 hybrid backbone. The 350M ranks fourth of 14 models on a 17-task GLUE, SuperGLUE, and multilingual suite, behind only larger models. The 230M clears one 8K-token forward pass on CPU in about 28 seconds.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/29/liquid-ai-releases-lfm2-5-encoder-230m-and-lfm2-5-encoder-350m-bidirectional-encoders-that-stay-fast-at-8k-context-on-cpu/">Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M: Bidirectional Encoders That Stay Fast at 8K Context on CPU</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com">MarkTechPost</a>.</p>