LFM3-1.7B vs Qwen3.5-9B: The 1.7B Model Wins on Tool Calls, Then Loses on Reasoning and Long Context
Liquid AI's own table shows LFM3-1.7B ahead on IFEval, BFCL and LiveCodeBench but 17 points behind on GPQA. Ollama 0.40.13 runs it on every desktop.
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