Introducing LFM3: Every Modality for Specialized Intelligence
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3 judges. Scored by all three judges. Only the day’s top stories get the claim check. How far stories are checked
Liquid AI has released LFM3, a family of around-2B-parameter open-weight models that handle text, vision, audio, omni, and decision tasks on one shared hybrid backbone, pre-trained on 22T tokens.
Why it ranked
No. 35 of 155 with a score of 0.64. The panel rated it highest on new information (0.96) and technical depth (0.85), lowest on significance (0.70). Overclaim counted against it (0.62).
- AI judgeJudge 2claude-haiku-5-5
- Major open-weight multimodal model family release with architecture and benchmark detail; heavy vendor claims and benchmark self-reporting lower substantiation and raise promotional tone.
- AI judgeJudge 3gpt-5.6-luna
- A substantial open-weight multimodal model release with architecture, training, benchmarks, deployment details, fine-tuning examples, and hardware coverage. It is highly actionable, though company-authored claims, missing benchmark values, and emphatic comparisons make it promotional and somewhat overclaiming.
Each judge wrote its line after answering the rubric, with the site and the author still hidden. Every answer behind this is in the table under Score.
Score
0.64total under rubric v2.2
- Significance0.70
- Reader interest0.77
- Audience breadth0.72
- Practical relevance0.83
- Substantiated0.75
- Technical depth0.85
- New information0.96
- Counts against: Promotional0.35
- Counts against: Overclaim0.62
Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).
| Question | Judge 1 | Judge 2 | Judge 3 | Mean | Spread | Weight | Contribution (weight times mean) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Significance | 0.74 | 0.55 | 0.82 | 0.70 | 0.27 | +0.24 | +0.169 |
| Reader interest | 0.71 | 0.70 | 0.91 | 0.77 | 0.21 | +0.26 | +0.201 |
| Audience breadth | 0.73 | 0.60 | 0.84 | 0.72 | 0.24 | +0.13 | +0.094 |
| Practical relevance | 0.93 | 0.70 | 0.88 | 0.83 | 0.23 | +0.22 | +0.184 |
| Substantiated | 0.93 | 0.60 | 0.72 | 0.75 | 0.33 | +0.05 | +0.038 |
| Technical depth | 0.91 | 0.75 | 0.91 | 0.85 | 0.16 | +0.05 | +0.043 |
| New information | 0.94 | 0.95 | 0.98 | 0.96 | 0.04 | +0.05 | +0.048 |
| Promotional | 0.12 | 0.45 | 0.48 | 0.35 | 0.36 | −0.19 | −0.066 |
| Overclaim | 0.57 | 0.50 | 0.78 | 0.62 | 0.28 | −0.11 | −0.068 |
| Sum of contributions | +0.641 | ||||||
| Claim-check penalty | 0.000 | ||||||
| Total, as published | 0.641 | ||||||
Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.
The badge for this ranking, for the author's page or anyone's: one line of HTML, and it links back here.
<a href="https://rubric.hrih.si/editions/2026-10-28/35/"><img src="https://rubric.hrih.si/badge/2026-10-28/35.svg" alt="Ranked #35 on Rubric, 28 Oct 2026" width="245" height="28"></a>Also covered by
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