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LFM2-1.2B
The memory it needs, what you may do with it, and the hardware it suits.

Short answer. LFM2-1.2B needs about 2.4 GB of memory at 4-bit, 3.0 GB at 8-bit and 4.1 GB at full 16-bit precision, including runtime overhead and an 8,192-token KV cache. It has about 1.2 billion parameters and a 128,000-token context window. Licence in short: custom licence: check before commercial use. By memory alone, on ANVE’s launch configurations: ANVE One fits at BF16, ANVE Office fits at BF16, ANVE Office Pro (GPU) fits at BF16. These are estimates from its published size, not benchmarks.

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What it is

LFM2-1.2B is a language model for chat, drafting and question answering, published by Liquid AI on Hugging Face on 10 July 2025. It has about 1.2 billion parameters and a configured context window of 128,000 tokens.

Its card lists the licence as a custom licence (lfm1.0). In short, the licence sets its own terms; read it before any commercial use.

Hugging Face counted about 70,636 downloads of it in the 30 days before we checked (7 Oct 2026), and 368 people have liked it there.

The card lists 8 languages: en, ar, zh, fr, de, ja, ko, es (ISO codes as given on the card).

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How much memory it needs

How these figures are worked out: weights = parameters × bits per weight ÷ 8. The KV cache is added for 8,192 tokens of context, plus about 1.5 GB of runtime overhead. Treat the totals as planning estimates.

Each token of context adds about 0.03 MB of KV cache at 16-bit, so 32,768 tokens would add about 1.1 GB.

PrecisionWeightsKV cache (8,192 tokens)Total, estimated
BF16 (full precision)2.3 GB0.27 GB4.1 GB
8-bit (Q8_0)1.2 GB0.27 GB3.0 GB
4-bit (Q4_K)0.66 GB0.27 GB2.4 GB
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Architecture at a glance

SettingValue in config.json
Architecture classLfm2ForCausalLM
Model typelfm2
Layers16
Hidden size2,048
Attention heads32
Key-value heads8 (grouped-query attention)
Head size64
Vocabulary65,536
Configured context128,000
Stored precisionbfloat16
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Will it fit on ANVE?

How the verdicts are worked out: on ANVE One, about three quarters of 64 GB of unified memory is available to the model; on ANVE Office and ANVE Office Pro, the model has to fit in the 24 GB on the graphics card, with 64 GB or 128 GB of system memory for everything else. This is arithmetic against the launch specification, not a test. ANVE’s tested default is Qwen 3.8 27B; this model is not yet validated on ANVE.

Configuration (at launch)Memory for the modelVerdict
ANVE Oneabout 48 GB of 64 GB unified memoryfits at BF16
ANVE Office24 GB on the RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF Editionfits at BF16
ANVE Office Pro (GPU)24 GB on the RTX PRO 4000 Blackwellfits at BF16
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What an office would use it for

Models this small are best for routing, classification, autocomplete and simple extraction. They are not reliable for minutes or legal drafting: ANVE never uses anything smaller than a 4B-class model for minutes.

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Similar models to compare

  • Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct (1.2B parameters, about 2.2 GB at 4-bit before context; commercial use allowed, with conditions)
  • MiniCPM5-1B (1.1B parameters, about 2.1 GB at 4-bit before context; commercial use allowed)
  • granite-3.0-1b-a400m-instruct (1.3B parameters, about 2.3 GB at 4-bit before context; commercial use allowed)
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Questions people ask

How much memory does LFM2-1.2B need?
About 2.4 GB at 4-bit, 3.0 GB at 8-bit and 4.1 GB at full 16-bit precision, including an 8,192-token KV cache and about 1.5 GB of runtime overhead. These are estimates from its parameter count.
Can LFM2-1.2B run on a 24 GB graphics card?
Yes, at BF16 by this estimate, with room left for context.
Is LFM2-1.2B free for commercial use?
Its card lists a custom licence (lfm1.0), which sets its own terms; read it before any commercial use. Read the licence itself before relying on this summary; it is not legal advice.
What is LFM2-1.2B’s context window?
Its configuration sets 128,000 tokens. Longer contexts need more memory for the KV cache, so the practical limit on a given machine can be lower.
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What is not real yet

No sealed ANVE unit exists; every image of the appliance on this site is a labelled render. The software runs today on a development machine. No customers yet, no certifications, no delivery date, and the final price is not announced.

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