I Ran a 1.5B-Active Model on My Laptop That Embarrassed a 26B by 46 Points (opens in new tab)

Last Updated on June 3, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. I Ran a 1.5B-Active Model on My Laptop That Embarrassed a 26B by 46 Points I did not expect a model that activates 1.5 billion parameters to walk all over one that activates 4 billion — and to do it on a benchmark that actually matters for agents. But that is exactly what happened when I put Liquid AI’s new LFM2.5–8B-A1B (released May 28, 2026) up against Google’s Gemma ...