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The MIT-born startup making frontier-grade AI run on phones, cars, and edge hardware
HQ: Cambridge, MA | Founded: 2023 | Employees: ~100-150 (mid-2026) | Stage: Private; ~$2.3B (Dec 2024); no new round through Aug 2026 | Website: https://liquid.ai
Liquid AI was founded in March 2023 as an MIT CSAIL spinoff in Cambridge, MA by Ramin Hasani (CEO), Mathias Lechner (CTO), Alexander Amini (CSO), and Daniela Rus (MIT CSAIL director; co-founder, board, technical adviser). It builds Liquid Foundation Models (LFM) - efficient, interpretable models derived from liquid time-constant (LTC) networks - covering text (LFM, LFM2, LFM2.5 from 350M to 8B incl. an MoE line), vision-language, audio, and retrieval nano-models. The company raised a disputed-size seed (~$37.5-46.6M, Dec 2023) and a $250M AMD-led Series A at ~$2.3B (Dec 2024). Deployments include Mercedes-Benz MBUX (multi-year, N. America, production target H2 2026), Samsung/Samsung NEXT, Shopify model testing, Alef Education (1.5M students / 14,000 K-12 schools, Jan 2026), and DARPA aircr
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