v0.40.12-rc1

Brief overview

Liquid AI has released the LFM3 small model family, including the 1.7B parameter text model lfm3 and variants supporting image and audio functions, with a context window of up to 256K tokens; the d1 decision model has been upgraded to 2B parameters, supporting text, image, and audio inference, with Apple hardware already supporting the rc1 version.

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Liquid AI LFM3

LFM3 is Liquid AI's new family of small models built for local agents, tool calling, and structured output, on Liquid's new tri-hybrid architecture. The family includes:

lfm3: a 1.7B text model with a 256K-token context window
lfm3-vl: adds image understanding
lfm3-audio: speech recognition, translation, and text-to-speech in 18 languages
lfm3-omni: text, images, and audio in one model

ollama run lfm3

d1 decision models

Liquid AI's d1 models now come in a 2B size, built on LFM3. d1 makes decisions about text and images, and d1-omni adds audio.

ollama run d1:2b "I was charged twice for order 4417." --ask "Is this a billing issue?"

Note: lfm3 and d1 2b are supported on Apple hardware in rc1. Support for Linux/Windows coming soon.

What's Changed

Faster prompt processing on Apple silicon for Gemma 4, Flint and Laguna models
Speculative decoding now supports DFlash2 draft models on MLX
Gemma 4 keeps more detail in small images
ollama launch now works with OpenCode v2
Fixed tool-only assistant turns from Kimi CLI
Updated MLX and llama.cpp

Full Changelog: v0.40.11...v0.40.12