Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M: Bidirectional Encoders That Stay Fast at 8K Context on CPU
Liquid AI has released two open-weight bidirectional encoders, LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M. Both are masked language models built on the LFM2 hybrid backbone. Both carry an 8,192-token context. Encoders sit underneath classifiers, intent routers, safety filters, and PII detectors. Those jobs run continuously, usually without a GPU, and increasingly on longer inputs. BERT established the class. […]
