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… For example, Granite 4 and Liquid AI's LFM2 both use a hybrid Mamba-transformer setup, and IBM claims it cuts memory use by up to 70% compared to a pure transformer at the same size. …
… Noema is free, and runs GGUF and MLX and Liquid AI's SLM formats natively, which is already more flexible than PocketPal offers. …
… It was small enough to run regularly, supported Ollama tools without additional formatting work, and remained more consistent when the request required restraint or contained unclear wording. …