{"type":"post","id":"liquid-ai-released-liquidcodec-a-74m-param-streaming-40a5e4","slug":"liquid-ai-released-liquidcodec-a-74m-param-streaming-40a5e4","title":"Liquid AI released LiquidCodec, a ~74M-param streaming audio codec for LFM3-Audio-2B and LFM3-Omni-2B.","description":"Liquid AI has published LiquidCodec, a compact, streaming codec that turns speech into discrete tokens and reconstructs it as audio.","retrieval_nugget":"Liquid AI has published LiquidCodec, a compact, streaming codec that turns speech into discrete tokens and reconstructs it as audio. The roughly 74-million-parameter component powers LFM3-Audio-2B and LFM3-Omni-2B; its low reported CPU real-time factors and quantized decoder make it relevant to teams building speech systems, although the published comparisons are Liquid AI’s own evaluations.","published_at":"2026-11-13","updated_at":"2026-11-13","record_date":"2026-11-13","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["models","multimodal","inference"],"entities":["Liquid AI","LiquidCodec","LFM3-Audio-2B","LFM3-Omni-2B","Transformers","llama.cpp","Qwen3-1.7B"],"related_patterns":["generative-media-becomes-application-infrastructure"],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"Liquid AI released LiquidCodec as a standalone streaming codec, with a roughly 74M-parameter model and reported fast encoding, high-fidelity reconstruction, and a compact decoder option.","prior_refs":["https://newruntime.com/posts/lfm3-audio-2b-supports-18-languages-tool-calls-8c0d35/"],"source_url":"https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/Liquid-Codec","source_urls":["https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/Liquid-Codec"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:liquid-ai-released-liquidcodec-a-74m-param-streaming-40a5e4","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/liquid-ai-released-liquidcodec-a-74m-param-streaming-40a5e4/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/liquid-ai-released-liquidcodec-a-74m-param-streaming-40a5e4.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/liquid-ai-released-liquidcodec-a-74m-param-streaming-40a5e4.json"},"markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/liquid-ai-released-liquidcodec-a-74m-param-streaming-40a5e4.md","next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/models/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/models/","title":"Models","reason":"Explore the models topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/models.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/models.json"},{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/multimodal/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/multimodal/","title":"Multimodal","reason":"Explore the multimodal topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/multimodal.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/multimodal.json"},{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/inference/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/inference/","title":"Inference","reason":"Explore the inference topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/inference.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/inference.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/sources/","url":"https://newruntime.com/sources/","title":"Sources","reason":"See the original sources this archive cites.","media_type":"text/html"}]}