LiquidAI released two 350M-parameter multilingual retrieval models on 2026-06-18: LFM2.5-Embedding-350M (a bi-encoder) and LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M (a multi-vector ColBERT with late interaction). Both support 11 languages — Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish — and mark the LFM family's first bidirectional models.
LiquidAI released two multilingual retrieval models on 2026-06-18: LFM2.5-Embedding-350M and LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M.
💧 @liquidai released 2 multilingual retrieval models, the first bidirectional members of the LFM family.
Both 350M params, 11 languages (ar, de, en, es, fr, it, ja, ko, no, pt, sv):
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