Instructions to use FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF") messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] pipe(text=messages)# Load model directly from transformers import AutoModel model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF", device_map="auto") - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- llama.cpp
How to use FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF with llama.cpp:
Install (macOS, Linux)
curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: llama serve -hf FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M # Run inference directly in the terminal: llama cli -hf FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Install from WinGet (Windows)
winget install llama.cpp # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: llama serve -hf FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M # Run inference directly in the terminal: llama cli -hf FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Use pre-built binary
# Download pre-built binary from: # https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: ./llama-server -hf FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M # Run inference directly in the terminal: ./llama-cli -hf FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Build from source code
git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp.git cd llama.cpp cmake -B build cmake --build build -j --target llama-server llama-cli # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: ./build/bin/llama-server -hf FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M # Run inference directly in the terminal: ./build/bin/llama-cli -hf FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M
- LM Studio
- Jan
- vLLM
How to use FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M
- SGLang
How to use FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF with SGLang:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install SGLang from pip: pip install sglang # Start the SGLang server: python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'Use Docker images
docker run --gpus all \ --shm-size 32g \ -p 30000:30000 \ -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \ --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \ --ipc=host \ lmsysorg/sglang:latest \ python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }' - Ollama
How to use FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF with Ollama:
ollama run hf.co/FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M
- Unsloth Studio
How to use FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF with Unsloth Studio:
Install Unsloth Studio (macOS, Linux, WSL)
curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | sh # Run unsloth studio unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888 # Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser # Search for FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF to start chatting
Install Unsloth Studio (Windows)
irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex # Run unsloth studio unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888 # Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser # Search for FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF to start chatting
Using HuggingFace Spaces for Unsloth
# No setup required # Open https://huggingface.co/spaces/unsloth/studio in your browser # Search for FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF to start chatting
- Pi
How to use FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF with Pi:
Start the llama.cpp server
# Install llama.cpp: brew install llama.cpp # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: llama serve -hf FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Configure the model in Pi
# Install Pi: npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent # Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json: { "providers": { "llama-cpp": { "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1", "api": "openai-completions", "apiKey": "none", "models": [ { "id": "FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M" } ] } } }Run Pi
# Start Pi in your project directory: pi
- OpenClaw new
How to use FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF with OpenClaw:
Start the llama.cpp server
# Install llama.cpp: brew install llama.cpp # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: llama serve -hf FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Configure OpenClaw
# Install OpenClaw: npm install -g openclaw@latest # Register the local server and set it as the default model: openclaw onboard --non-interactive --mode local \ --auth-choice custom-api-key \ --custom-base-url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 \ --custom-model-id "FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M" \ --custom-provider-id llama-cpp \ --custom-compatibility openai \ --custom-text-input \ --accept-risk \ --skip-health
Run OpenClaw
openclaw agent --local --agent main --message "Hello from Hugging Face"
- Docker Model Runner
How to use FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M
- Lemonade
How to use FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF with Lemonade:
Pull the model
# Download Lemonade from https://lemonade-server.ai/ lemonade pull FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Run and chat with the model
lemonade run user.Fabric1.6-GGUF-Q4_K_M
List all available models
lemonade list
- Hermes Agent
How to use FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF with Hermes Agent:
Start the llama.cpp server
# Install llama.cpp: brew install llama.cpp # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: llama serve -hf FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Configure Hermes
# Install Hermes: curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash hermes setup # Point Hermes at the local server: hermes config set model.provider custom hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 hermes config set model.default FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Run Hermes
hermes
- Atomic Chat
This is a GGUF repository for easy inference with llama.cpp, Ollama and LM Studio, quantized from the base model FabricAI/Fabric1.6.
Fabric 1.6
Fabric 1.6 is a 35-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) reasoning model developed by Fabric AI, with approximately 3 billion parameters activated per token. It is a native multimodal, agentic model built on a hybrid Gated DeltaNet + Gated Attention architecture, with explicit chain-of-thought reasoning, a native 262,144-token context window, and built-in Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) for up to 50% faster generation.
Fabric 1.6 is designed for agentic use in harnesses such as OpenCode, Pi Agent, Hermes Agent and other OpenAI-compatible tool-calling environments, and offers the option to preserve thinking context from past messages across long multi-turn sessions.
1. Key Features
- Hybrid Architecture: Gated DeltaNet (linear attention) layers interleaved with Gated Attention layers inside a 256-expert MoE transformer — sub-quadratic scaling with full attention capacity where it matters.
- Native Long Context: 262,144 tokens natively, extensible up to 1,010,000 tokens.
- Multi-Token Prediction (MTP): predicts multiple future tokens per step for up to 50% faster generation.
- Native Multimodality: accepts text, image and video inputs within the same model.
- Explicit Reasoning: produces an internal chain of thought before answering; reasoning is exposed in a structured format that can be streamed and stored.
- Agentic by Design: reliable structured tool-calling, long-horizon task execution, and preserved thinking context across turns.
2. Model Summary
| Architecture | Hybrid Gated DeltaNet + Gated Attention, Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) |
| Total Parameters | 35B |
| Activated Parameters | ~3B |
| Number of Layers | 40 |
| Layer Layout | 10 × (3 × (Gated DeltaNet → MoE) → 1 × (Gated Attention → MoE)) |
| Hidden Dimension | 2048 |
| Gated DeltaNet | 32 value heads, 16 QK heads, head dimension 128 |
| Gated Attention | 16 Q heads, 2 KV heads, head dimension 256, RoPE dim 64 |
| Number of Experts | 256 |
| Selected Experts per Token | 8 routed + 1 shared |
| Expert Intermediate Dimension | 512 |
| Vocabulary Size | 248,320 |
| Context Length | 262,144 (extensible to 1,010,000) |
| Multi-Token Prediction | 1 MTP layer (up to 50% faster generation) |
| Vision Encoder | 27-layer ViT, hidden 1152, patch 16, temporal patch 2 |
| Modality | Text, Image, Video |
| Precision | GGUF Q4_K_M (4.89 BPW) |
3. Datasets Used to Train
Fabric 1.6 was developed from the Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Base foundation through continuous pre-training followed by post-training (supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement-learning-based alignment).
Pre-training was performed primarily on a large, in-house proprietary synthetic dataset spanning code, mathematics and reasoning, complemented by open reasoning corpora:
- OpenThoughts3-1.2M — 1.2M high-quality reasoning traces across mathematics, science, coding and general problem solving.
- OpenR1-Math-220k — 225k mathematical problems with think-style solutions.
Post-training instruction data combines permissively licensed open corpora with proprietary data:
- smoltalk2 — an Apache-2.0 SFT subset (~340k examples) covering multilingual instruction following, multi-turn reasoning, tool-calling traces, system chats and table understanding.
- hermes-function-calling-v1 — structured tool-calling traces.
- oasst2 — curated, reviewed conversational chains.
- maple — a proprietary instruction and reasoning corpus developed in-house by Fabric AI (CC-BY-4.0).
In total, approximately 12 billion tokens were processed across the pre-training and post-training stages. Knowledge cutoff: July 2026.
4. Evaluation Results
Fabric 1.6 was evaluated on 22 benchmarks with greedy decoding (temperature 0).
| Category | Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Math & Reasoning | AIME25 | 92.8 |
| AIME26 | 93.1 | |
| HMMT26 | 83.2 | |
| IMOAB | 79.2 | |
| M500 | 84.8 | |
| Science & Knowledge | GPQA | 86.7 |
| GPQA-D | 84.9 | |
| HLE | 21.4 | |
| MMLU-P | 85.6 | |
| MMLU-R | 93.5 | |
| C-Eval | 92.3 | |
| Coding | LCB6 | 80.2 |
| SWEB-V | 72.9 | |
| SWEB-P | 50.1 | |
| IFEval | 93.09 | |
| General Reasoning | GSM8K-Pt | 95.73 |
| Agentic Tools | TAU3 | 67.2 |
| MMMU-P | 74.10 | |
| RWQA | 85.4 | |
| MCP-A | 62.8 | |
| WS | 60.3 | |
| MV-mini | 86.6 |
5. Deployment
Install llama.cpp
apt-get update
apt-get install pciutils build-essential cmake curl libcurl4-openssl-dev -y
git clone https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp
cmake llama.cpp -B llama.cpp/build \
-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DGGML_CUDA=ON
cmake --build llama.cpp/build --config Release -j --clean-first --target llama-cli llama-mtmd-cli llama-server llama-gguf-split
cp llama.cpp/build/bin/llama-* llama.cpp
Serve with llama.cpp
./llama.cpp/llama-server \
-hf FabricAI/Fabric1.6-GGUF:Q4_K_M \
-ngl 99 -c 8192 -fa on -np 1 \
--spec-type draft-mtp --spec-draft-n-max 2
6. Model Usage
Fabric 1.6 always has thinking enabled and returns reasoning_content alongside the answer. The model was trained in preserved thinking history mode: for multi-turn conversations and tool calls, pass the complete assistant message returned by the API back to messages as-is — including reasoning_content and tool_calls, not just content — so that reasoning from earlier turns remains available to later ones.
7. License
The model weights are released under the Apache License 2.0.
8. Citation
If you use Fabric 1.6 in your work, please cite it as:
@misc{fabric1.6,
title = {{Fabric1.6}: Agentic Open Model for Enterprises},
url = {https://huggingface.co/FabricAI/Fabric1.6},
author = {{Fabric AI}},
month = {August},
year = {2026}
}
9. Contact
For questions, collaborations or access requests, contact the Fabric AI research team at research@fabricai.co.uk.
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Evaluation results
- Pass@1 on AIME25self-reported92.800
- Pass@1 on AIME26self-reported93.100
- Pass@1 on HMMT26self-reported83.200
- Pass@1 on IMOABself-reported79.200
- Accuracy on M500self-reported84.800
- Accuracy on GPQAself-reported86.700
- Accuracy on GPQA-Dself-reported84.900
- Accuracy on HLEself-reported21.400