Coworker with Liquid AI LFM2.5-2.6B via LM Studio on a Mac

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-08-26 · Open on X

Topics: AI Agents, Tool Use & MCP, LLMOps, Deployment & Monitoring · Level: beginner

Summary

Shows the creator's Coworker agent app running fully locally on a Mac. It uses Liquid AI's small LFM2.5-2.6B model, served through LM Studio, which suggests small local models can power a desktop agent.

Key points

• Coworker can use local models served by LM Studio.
• Liquid AI's LFM2.5-2.6B is small enough to run on a Mac.
• Pairing a local model server (LM Studio) with an agent app gives you a fully local AI agent.

Resources mentioned

• Liquid AI (@liquidai) on X · website · x.com · free
  An AI company that builds efficient foundation models. The quoted post shows its PII handling working on Japanese text.
  Also in: Zero-Shot Prompt Routing with Liquid AI's LFM 2.5-Encoder-350M (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Liquid AI LFM 2.5 Encoder: a CPU-friendly encoder model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Fine-tuning Liquid AI LFM2/LFM2.5 MoE models with the new Halo framework (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Liquid AI's LFM2-Longevity models for aging-data analysis (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 19 more
• LM Studio · tool · x.com · free
  Desktop app for downloading and running LLMs locally, with a developer mode that serves models through an API.
  Also in: Running LLMs Locally Without an Expensive Rig (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Adding Vercel AI Gateway as a provider in AIBackends with Devin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), LoRA Fine-Tune Qwen3.5-2B on Your Tweets with Unsloth Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AIBackends: An API Layer Between Your App and AI Models (Now with Jev) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 31 more
• LFM2.5-2.6B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Liquid AI's small language model, which can be paired with the LFM2.5-VL-3B vision model.
  Also in: Coworker: Open-Source Work Agent That Runs on Small Local Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Zero-Cost Coworker Setup: OpenRouter Free Models + Local LFM2.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: A Subscription-Free AI Agent on Local LFM2.5-2.6B (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Your Hermes Agent on Free LFM2.5-2.6B via OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 9 more
• Coworker (donvito/coworker) · repo · github.com · free
  The creator's local-first desktop app where you pick an AI coworker and have it produce work such as invoices as finished PDFs.
  Also in: Claude Opus 5.5 for Video Making: Creator's Showcase Thread (Coworker) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: free open-source desktop AI coworker app (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: Open-Source Desktop App for AI Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Devin AI to Test the Coworker Desktop App on Windows (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 38 more

Try this

• Serve LFM2.5-2.6B with LM Studio and connect it to Coworker to run an agent locally.