LFM2.5 24B A2B Local Test | Better than Qwen3.6 35B? | | 16GB Local AI Setup
LFM2.5 24B A2B is open weight MoE by Liquid AI that claims similar quality to Qwen3.6 35B and Gemma 4 26B. Is it and should you replace your local model for this one? Let's test it! DaBench (vs Mellum 2.1): https://dabench.ai/compare/lfm-2-5-24b-a-2b-vs-mellum-2-1-thinking Announcement: https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b Weights (GGUF): https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B-GGUF AI Academy: https://MLExpert.io Work with me: https://mlexpert.io/consulting DaBench (open weight LLM benchmarks): https://dabench.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/venelin-valkov Follow me on