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This focus on offline capabilities underscores their vision of reducing dependency on cloud servers, ensuring user privacy, lowering operational costs, and reducing latency.
Licensing & Accessibility
While promoting openness, Liquid AI has implemented a license structure to prevent commercial monopolization:
The models under LFM1.0 license, based on Apache 2.0.
Smaller companies earning under $10 million annually are free to use the models for both research and commercial purposes.
Larger entities must contact Liquid AI for licensing agreements, balancing open access with commercial considerations.
This approach aims to foster innovation while preventing mass commercialization by big corporations without collaboration.