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Beating AI Express: Leading edge-side AI R&D firm Liquid AI has launched LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a model focused on enhancing local agent inference and tool calling capabilities. The previous LFM2-24B-A2B generation prioritized operational efficiency; the new version retains a total of 24 billion parameters with only around 2 billion activated per run, while its pre-training data has grown from 17 trillion to 33 trillion tokens, and its context window expanded from 32K to 131K. The new model performs inference before generating responses, and was fine-tuned via reinforcement learning directly on agent frameworks including OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Pi, and OpenCode, training on continuous tool calls, handling return results, and completing multi-step tasks. In an official demo, a MacBook—no cloud model API required—enabled Hermes Agent to search for trending Hugging Face projects, compile briefings, and act on follow-up queries. Official tests show the new model generates 184 tokens per second on Apple M5 Max, up to 1.7 times faster than comparable MoE models. In agent benchmarks, it scored 48.09 on LiveClaw, higher than Qwen3.6-35B-A3B’s 38.19; its AutomationBench score of 27.69 is over three times that of Qwen. However, it only achieved 51% on the SWE-bench Verified programming test, lower than Qwen’s 66.2%.

According to official announcements, Binance Wallet will open the claim period for a new round of Alpha airdrops at 18:00 Beijing time today. Users holding at least 245 Binance Alpha points are eligible to claim the token airdrop. The airdrop operates on a first-come, first-served basis and will remain open until the airdrop pool is exhausted or the event concludes.

According to on-chain data analyst @ai_9684xtpa’s monitoring, TRUMP’s team allocation address transferred $11.78 million worth of tokens (6.136 million TRUMP tokens) to a new address after a 12-day interval, likely to be deposited into a trading platform. It is noted that 12 days ago, this address had already transferred $8.87 million worth of TRUMP to the address 52RDq…rkaD1; these tokens were later deposited into OKX via two addresses, using a similar operational approach.

According to on-chain data analytics provider Yu Jin Monitoring, Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik transferred three tokens worth a total of $1.41 million to Coinbase one hour ago. The transferred assets include 382 ETH (valued at $957,000), 1 million LDO ($423,000), and 14 YFI ($33,000).

Beating AI Express News: AI infrastructure firm Prime Intellect, valued at $1 billion, announced the acquisition of open-source vision model company Moondream. The latter has a team of fewer than 10 people, previously raised $4.5 million in funding, with the acquisition amount undisclosed. Both founders will join Prime Intellect to lead inference acceleration and multimodal model research. Moondream’s models can identify warehouse bins, locate products on shelves, and analyze live video. The latest Moondream 3.1 has 9 billion total parameters, with only 2 billion activated per run; the entire model family sees over 5 million downloads monthly. However, the more critical asset in this acquisition is the Photon inference engine, which consolidates large volumes of scattered GPU compute operations to reduce hardware latency. Prime Intellect stated that on a single H100 GPU, Photon can run over 60 Moondream inferences per second, sufficient to support live video analysis. Prime Intellect previously focused on providing infrastructure for AI agent training, reinforcement learning, and other use cases, and launched its Prime Inference platform earlier this October. Following the acquisition, Moondream 3.1 has been integrated into the platform, and Photon has begun providing inference acceleration for Clef and Clef Flash. The company plans to further apply this technology to video, voice, and computer operation AI agents, enabling enterprises to complete multimodal model training, optimization, and deployment on a single platform. The Moondream brand will be retained.

According to official news, OKX Flash Earn Lite will launch the KAT (Katana) "Stake to Earn" activity from 15:00 (UTC+8) on October 19, 2026 to 15:00 (UTC+8) on October 24, 2026. During the event, users who subscribe by locking BTC or KAT will share 30,000,000 KAT in airdrop rewards. Users can pre-subscribe starting today, with rewards calculated from the official start of the event. Additionally, users can directly use assets from their flexible Simple Earn balance to subscribe to Flash Earn’s Stake to Earn. To participate, users can either access via the event link or select "Flash Earn" at the top of the OKX App’s Explore page.