Adding LFM2.5-2.6B support to AIBackends with Cursor

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-08-09 · Open on X

Topics: LLMOps, Deployment & Monitoring, AI Dev Tools & Productivity · Level: intermediate

Summary

The creator announces he is adding support for Liquid AI's small LFM2.5-2.6B model to his site AIBackends, building it with Cursor and the Fable model. This is mostly a progress update that points to a small local model and a coding tool.

Key points

• Liquid AI's LFM2.5-2.6B is a small model the creator is adding to his AI workflow platform.
• He used Cursor with the Fable model to build the integration and praised the combination.

Resources mentioned

• AIBackends · repo · aibackends.com · free
  Open-source API server runtime for common AI use cases that supports many models and providers (Ollama, LM Studio, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic).
  Also in: Building a production website with Opus 5.5 and TanStack (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), CamelFlow: open-source visual viewer for Apache Camel routes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI Backends: A Production AI Workflow Engineering Site (Link Share) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Demo: Claude Opus 5.5 Generating a Motion-Graphics Video for AIBackends (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 16 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), Coworker with Liquid AI LFM2.5-2.6B via LM Studio on a Mac (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) and 9 more
• Cursor · tool · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  AI-native code editor (VS Code with AI built in).
  Also in: GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash now in Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok Bot Can Now Hand Off Coding Tasks to Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Plan Mode Still Matters in AI Coding Assistants (Codex, Claude, Cursor) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Plan Mode Still Matters in AI Coding Agents (Codex, Claude, Cursor) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 121 more