#127 Robin: This 1.7B Local AI Runs Agents, Vision, Voice - Even on an $80 Arduino
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Liquid AI’s LFM3 family shows how far tiny local models have come. A 1.7B-parameter model can now code, edit files, run lightweight AI agent tasks, understand images and voice, and even run fully offline on low-cost hardware.
We’ll talk about:
LFM3 1.7B: How a tiny local model handled coding, file editing, research, and agent workflows on a regular laptop.
Vision + OCR: Where LFM3 did well with images, manuals, and extracting structured information.
Offline Voice + Video: What worked with…
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