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Liquid AI’s LFM3 separates multimodal generation from structured decisions

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Liquid AI’s October 27 release introduces text, vision, audio, omni and decision variants. Developers can choose a component around the output their application needs.

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Published October 27, 20261 min readJoin the discussion ↓Original links ↓

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What changed: the family includes generative models and separate d1 decision models. These are different interfaces, not interchangeable claims of intelligence.

Try next: inspect the published photo-and-voice walkthrough, then design a small evaluation using non-sensitive examples. We have not executed it.

Limits: downloadable weights do not establish permissive open-source licensing. The Omni model card lists the LFM Open License; full terms were not retrievable in this review.

Discussion: does your application need a generated explanation or a bounded decision?

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