Agents
18 updates on Agents.
Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 2B-active MoE for local agents
Liquid AI reports 184 tok/s on an Apple M5 Max for its 24B-parameter mixture-of-experts model, which activates 2.45B parameters per token.
Qualcomm CEO says AI companies want 100B-parameter models running on phones by 2028
Cristiano Amon says unnamed AI companies have asked Qualcomm for phones that can run at least a 100-billion-parameter model almost continuously by 2028.
Google adds local model support to the Antigravity SDK with Gemma 4 on LiteRT
Antigravity agents can now run on Gemma 4 26B A4B through LiteRT, with Google recommending more than 24 GB of VRAM or unified memory.
Perplexity brings its local Portable Computer agent to AMD Ryzen AI Max PCs
Portable Computer runs Qwen 3.8 27B or PPLX 27B locally on Windows PCs with AMD Ryzen AI Max chips and at least 24 GB of GPU-accessible memory.
Qualcomm teases next-gen Hexagon NPU ahead of Snapdragon Summit 2026
Qualcomm has teased its next-generation Hexagon NPU — featuring a transformer-focused Element Accelerator and 50% more shared memory — built for on-device agentic AI ahead of the …
RikkaHub Agent test: Android phone agent compiles whisper.cpp on its own
XDA runs RikkaHub Agent on an Oppo Find N5 against a self-hosted Qwen 3.6 27B. The agent installed dependencies and built whisper.cpp in Termux in seven minutes.
Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-2.6B for on-device agents
Liquid AI reports 30 tokens per second on a phone and under 2.5 GB of memory for its 2.6-billion-parameter model, released with open weights.
Qualcomm CEO says agents will become the new app, cites more than 40 device designs
Cristiano Amon tells CNBC that Qualcomm has over 40 designs for AI wearables and that smart glasses shipments could reach hundreds of millions a year.
CAPED redacts phone screenshots before a cloud GUI agent sees them
Researchers at CUHK, Southeast University and Shandong University report a phone-side screenshot filter that cuts seeded leakage from 0.766 to 0.268.
Gemma 4 lands on the edge with Agent Skills in Google AI Edge Gallery
Google says Gemma 4 E2B runs in under 1.5 GB on some devices and reaches 3,700 prefill tokens per second on a Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 NPU.
ClawMobile tries system commands before screen taps and finishes all six test tasks
An agent runtime that runs on the phone itself routes tasks to ADB commands before UI taps, and the authors report 100 percent completion on six tasks.
Alibaba releases GUI-Owl-1.5 agent models from 2B to 32B under MIT
Tongyi Lab open-sourced six GUI agent checkpoints from 2B to 32B and reports 71.6 on AndroidWorld, with every benchmark run server-side, not on a phone.