Liquid AI shipped LFM3: a 1.7B backbone, and six models grown off

2026-10-28 06:33

Liquid AI shipped LFM3: a 1.7B backbone, and six models grown off it (text, vision, audio, omni, plus two decision models). All open-weight. 256K context, roughly 1GB at 4-bit, fine-tunes on one GPU. a full 128K context costs 1.6GB of KV cache. Qwen3.5-4B takes 4.3GB for the same thing. 🔗 https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm3

shipped Argon two weeks ago

. Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon today. $2/M input, $10/M output. Same price Argon had two weeks ago, with cached input at half that. They haven't said anything yet about params, context window, or when the API opens. Right now it's in voluntary pre-release testing with the US government. Terminal-Bench 4.0 at 65.2%, eight points above Argon. GraphWalks long context at 96.2%. WebDev Arena up 89 points, fourth place.

2026-10-29

Hooking my agent up to live web data.

Once you do research with agents you end up scraping, and self-hosting an account pool is far too much maintenance for me. After looking around, ProLevelMax was the only one that supports LinkedIn, and the price is reasonable. Via API or MCP you get company pages, profiles, posts, job listings, and the ad library. Billed per query, $0.024 each. Cheap enough to run actual market research on it.

2026-10-28

I stuffed an agent into an Android phone.

You've probably run into those short videos lately where an agent drives a phone around by itself. This one is called Mika, and it's a free open-source project. It's an Android app that works in the background through accessibility mode, so it can use pretty much any other app you have installed. Reply to someone on WeChat, scroll Xiaohongshu, drop something in a cart and check out. It finds the buttons by looking at the screen. There's no API to wire up, and it doesn't care what resolution your phone is. When it reaches a payment step or a captcha it stops and lets you finish. 🔗 github.com/wangzan101/Mika

2026-11-01

My product went profitable, and something in me broke.

Someone on Xiaohongshu posted a while back that she sells phone keyboard skins she made with Codex. Eight, ten yuan a pack. Over a thousand a month. I've been at mine for months. October: a few hundred copies, $1,200 gross. Platform fee 30%, tax 10%, so 60% should have landed. It came to just over a thousand dollars. I still don't know how the math pulled that off. I have an overseas bank account. Once lost $500 to a wire transfer off one. I'd still tell you to take payout through WorldFirst: less hassle, lower fees. You can also get a Hong Kong USD credit card tied to it that spends your WorldFirst balance directly. Digital card is free. Physical is $4. Mainland purchases under ¥200 skip the processing fee, and right now there's 1% cashback.

2026-11-01