AIBackends Adds Support for LFM2.5-VL-3B

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-08-15 · Open on X

Topics: LLMOps, Deployment & Monitoring · Level: beginner

Summary

The creator says he has finished adding support for Liquid AI's LFM2.5-VL-3B vision model to AIBackends. It is a short progress update that points to the project site.

Key points

• LFM2.5-VL-3B (a small vision-language model) is now supported in AIBackends.
• Part of the work leading up to the AIBackends 0.4.0 release.

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-VL-3B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Liquid AI's lightweight vision-language model for screen and document understanding, grounding and tool calling.
  Also in: OCR Testing a Small Vision Model with LLM-Made Ground Truth (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AIBackends 0.4.0: Liquid AI LFM2.5 Models on llama.cpp and Transformers (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using LFM2.5-VL-3B's Vision Capabilities (Liquid AI Guide) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Quick test of Liquid AI's LFM2.5-VL-3B vision model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more