What changed

The reasoning model calls tools. Liquid lists inference support for llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, SGLang and ONNX.

Source: Liquid AI LFM2.5 release announcement on Hugging Face

Our analysis

Builder’s view: test tool-call correctness, memory needs and end-to-end latency on intended hardware. Enforce network permissions separately. We have not tested this release.

Keep in mind

Performance depends on hardware and workload. External tools can still send data over the network.

Source: Liquid AI LFM2.5 release announcement on Hugging Face

Sources & dates

Article updated: 13 Oct 2026

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