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Liquid AI's 279.5M drafter turns a 3.13x decode gain into 2.62x end to end
Liquid AI shipped a 279.5-million-parameter draft model for LFM2.5-VL-3B on September 24, reporting 2.30x to 3.13x faster decoding on an Apple M5 Max. Image encoding and prompt prefill are unchanged, and the company's tests did not cover quantized deployments.
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