VIGOR (Vision Intelligence and Guardrail Oriented Reasoning) is now available on the Hugging Face Model Hub. It is a multimodal vision classification model based on Qwen3.5, designed for visual content-safety analysis and conservative classification, with a particular focus on identifying potentially sensitive content.
You know, I can't believe we are actually doing it, literally advancing the frontier at the edge! We've come a long way since the first models on open slm leaderboard, and, as many things that change, performance is one of the main things that has exploded.
7 years ago, the best we had was GPT-2. Today, we got 90m models beating smollm2! I can't barely see what a future with increasingly powerful small models will look like.
All I can say is that the best is yet to come. And will be agentic.
One number missing from LFM3's on-device story: memory at 256K context. Liquid AI reports 1.90 GB peak on iPhone 17 Pro at 32K. From the pinned config, f16 K/V cache alone would be 0.41 GB at 32K, 1.61 GB at 128K and 3.22 GB at 256K, before weights and runtime buffers. The chart shows the calculation, not a phone measurement. If you have run longer contexts on-device, share peak memory and time to first token here: LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B#5