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Can I run it?

Every model from the bench, against the reference rigs: the one quant we would actually download for each tier, its file size, and a plain speed class. Fits are at 32k context, from file size plus runtime overhead (our estimate) — computed, not measured. When a tier doesn’t fit, the matrix says so.

From the bench · No. 001 · Read the column

Liquid AI LFM2.5-24B-A2B

Hybrid MoE: 24.0B total parameters, 2.45B active per token, 131,072-token context, text only. Tuned for agents and tool calling.

Released October 13, 2026. License: LFM Open License v1.0 — commercial use yes under $10M annual revenue; paid license required above.

Model card · Official GGUF builds · License

Setup notes

Runs in llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, LM Studio; official GGUF and MLX builds on Hugging Face. Use a current llama.cpp build (b11606+) and pass --jinja so the embedded chat template drives tool calls. Vendor sampler settings ship in the file: temperature 0.1, top_k 50, repetition penalty 1.05. Difficulty: light setup.

Reference rigRecommended quantFile sizeWhy this oneSpeed class
8GB GPUNo full-GPU fit—CPU expert offload only.Usable
16GB GPUIQ4_XS13.30GB · m9ter1aNear-BF16 tool calls in community tests.Comfortable
24GB GPU (4090 class)Q5_K_M17.37GB · m9ter1aClosest to BF16 of the measured files.Flies
48GB GPUQ8_025.49GBNear-lossless, room for long context.Flies
Mac 32GBQ4_K_M14.53GB · officialSafe pick, unified-memory headroom.Comfortable
Mac 64GBQ8_025.49GBNear-lossless; 184 tok/s on M5 Max at Q4_K_M (vendor).Flies
96GB classBF1647.96GBFull precision, full context.Flies
128GB unifiedBF1647.96GBFull precision, full context.Flies
CPU offloadQ4_K_M14.53GBExpert offload on — 2.45B active keeps it usable.Usable

Speed classes are the bench column’s own words: Flies, Comfortable, Usable. Fits are our estimate at 32k context.

Steal this prompt — the fill-in version

I want to run [MODEL NAME] locally on my machine.
My machine: [GPU OR MAC MODEL], [VRAM OR UNIFIED MEMORY, e.g. 24GB], [SYSTEM RAM], [OPERATING SYSTEM].
The recommended quant for my memory tier is [QUANT, e.g. Q5_K_M]. Setup notes for this model: [PASTE THE SETUP NOTES — runtime, required flags, sampler settings].
Give me exact, step-by-step install and run commands for my machine, sized for a context length of [CONTEXT, e.g. 32k]. If a step depends on something you do not know about my machine, ask me first — and flag anything you have to guess rather than inventing a step, a file name, or a flag.

Copy it, fill the brackets with your own machine, and paste it into a frontier model. The last lines are the important part: the model is told to ask about anything it doesn’t know and to flag its guesses instead of inventing steps.