Liquid AI released LFM2.5-VL-3B on August 12, 2026, a 3.1-billion-parameter open-weight vision-language model built to run on phones, laptops, and single GPUs rather than in a data center. The model, announced on the company’s blog and posted to Hugging Face with weights available immediately, extends last year’s LFM2-VL-3B with stronger screen understanding, object grounding, multi-image reasoning, and function calling. The company positions the release as its most capable vision model for…