@maximelabonne: We just released two new encoder models (MLM) in 2026 They're super fast, easy to train, and strongly multilingual. Try…
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Liquid AI released two new encoder models, LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M, that are fast, easy to train, and strongly multilingual, with speed benchmarks showing over 3.7x improvement on CPU compared to ModernBERT-base.
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We just released two new encoder models (MLM) in 2026 🚀🚀🚀
They’re super fast, easy to train, and strongly multilingual.
Try them today: we created 5 demos on @huggingface
Liquid AI (@liquidai): Today we release LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M: bidirectional encoders that stay fast at long context, even on CPU.
> LFM2.5-Encoder-230M: about 3.7x faster than ModernBERT-base on CPU at 8,192 tokens. Under 30s per forward pass, versus over a minute and a half. >
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