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Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a reasoning model for on-device agents

Liquid AI introduced LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B-parameter reasoning model with just 2B active parameters, built to run fast, private agents on local hardware.

AI DeskOct 181 min read

Fine-tuning & Training

Knowledge distillation explained: how small AI models learn from big ones

Distillation trains a compact "student" model to imitate a large "teacher". How it works, why it powers today's small models, and its legal and quality limits.

AI DeskOct 183 min read

Models tagged #Small Models

Google DeepMindMar 12, 2025

Gemma 3

Google's family of lightweight open models from 1B to 27B parameters, with image input on larger sizes, 128K context and support for 140+ languages.

Type: Small & On-device
Context: 128K
Weights: Open

hexgradJan 27, 2025

Kokoro-82M

A tiny 82-million-parameter open text-to-speech model with natural-sounding voices, small enough to run quickly on ordinary hardware.

Type: Speech
Context: —
Weights: Open

MicrosoftDec 12, 2024

Phi-4

Microsoft's 14-billion-parameter small language model trained heavily on high-quality synthetic data, strong at math and reasoning for its size.

Type: Small & On-device
Context: 16K
Weights: Open