Instructions to use FoolDev/Thanatos-27B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use FoolDev/Thanatos-27B with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="FoolDev/Thanatos-27B")
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("FoolDev/Thanatos-27B", dtype="auto")

llama-cpp-python

How to use FoolDev/Thanatos-27B with llama-cpp-python:

# !pip install llama-cpp-python

from llama_cpp import Llama

llm = Llama.from_pretrained(
	repo_id="FoolDev/Thanatos-27B",
	filename="Thanatos-27B.Q4_K_M.gguf",
)

llm.create_chat_completion(
	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"
					}
				}
			]
		}
	]
)

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

llama.cpp

How to use FoolDev/Thanatos-27B with llama.cpp:

Install from brew

brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama-server -hf FoolDev/Thanatos-27B:Q4_K_M
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama-cli -hf FoolDev/Thanatos-27B:Q4_K_M

Install from WinGet (Windows)

winget install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama-server -hf FoolDev/Thanatos-27B:Q4_K_M
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama-cli -hf FoolDev/Thanatos-27B: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 FoolDev/Thanatos-27B:Q4_K_M
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./llama-cli -hf FoolDev/Thanatos-27B: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 FoolDev/Thanatos-27B:Q4_K_M
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./build/bin/llama-cli -hf FoolDev/Thanatos-27B:Q4_K_M

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/FoolDev/Thanatos-27B:Q4_K_M

LM Studio
Jan

vLLM

How to use FoolDev/Thanatos-27B with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "FoolDev/Thanatos-27B"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "FoolDev/Thanatos-27B",
		"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/FoolDev/Thanatos-27B:Q4_K_M

SGLang

How to use FoolDev/Thanatos-27B 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 "FoolDev/Thanatos-27B" \
    --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": "FoolDev/Thanatos-27B",
		"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 "FoolDev/Thanatos-27B" \
        --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": "FoolDev/Thanatos-27B",
		"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 FoolDev/Thanatos-27B with Ollama:
```
ollama run hf.co/FoolDev/Thanatos-27B:Q4_K_M
```

Unsloth Studio new

How to use FoolDev/Thanatos-27B 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 FoolDev/Thanatos-27B 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 FoolDev/Thanatos-27B to start chatting

Using HuggingFace Spaces for Unsloth

# No setup required
# Open https://huggingface.co/spaces/unsloth/studio in your browser
# Search for FoolDev/Thanatos-27B to start chatting

Pi new

How to use FoolDev/Thanatos-27B with Pi:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama-server -hf FoolDev/Thanatos-27B: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": "FoolDev/Thanatos-27B:Q4_K_M"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run Pi

# Start Pi in your project directory:
pi

Hermes Agent new

How to use FoolDev/Thanatos-27B with Hermes Agent:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama-server -hf FoolDev/Thanatos-27B: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 FoolDev/Thanatos-27B:Q4_K_M

Run Hermes

hermes

Docker Model Runner
How to use FoolDev/Thanatos-27B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/FoolDev/Thanatos-27B:Q4_K_M
```

Lemonade

How to use FoolDev/Thanatos-27B with Lemonade:

Pull the model

# Download Lemonade from https://lemonade-server.ai/
lemonade pull FoolDev/Thanatos-27B:Q4_K_M

Run and chat with the model

lemonade run user.Thanatos-27B-Q4_K_M

List all available models

lemonade list

FoolDev Claude Opus 4.7 commited on 26 days ago

Commit

8a225df

1 Parent(s): 4208793

CHANGELOG: log the README "27B vs 35B receipts" and Ollama-vision tightening

Browse files

Two doc commits today (bec5589, 4208793) weren't reflected in the
Unreleased section. Adding them under Changed for parity with how
prior README work was logged in this section — the receipts entry
captures the measured 27B/35B perf comparison, the vision entry
captures the corrected understanding of where the architecture error
actually fires.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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@@ -49,6 +49,21 @@ and documentation**, not the underlying base model.
   now points 32 GB users at `make build QUANT=Q3_K_S` directly.
 ### Changed
 - README: added a TL;DR section right after the intro paragraph so
   someone scanning the page gets a working command without scrolling
   past Why / What's here / Architecture.

   now points 32 GB users at `make build QUANT=Q3_K_S` directly.
 ### Changed
+- README "Why a 27B variant?": the "slower per token than 35B-A3B"
+  claim now ships with a measured comparison — 27B Q3_K_S clocks ~10
+  tok/s vs ~27 tok/s for the 35B at ~Q4 on the same Ryzen AI Max+ 395
+  / Radeon 8060S iGPU (`make bench`). Same hardware, asymmetric quants
+  (35B doesn't ship a Q3_K_S), but the ~2.7x ratio is what you'd
+  expect from ~3B vs 27B active params.
+- README + `examples/README.md` Vision sections: tightened the
+  Ollama-0.22 failure-mode description. Previously implied that
+  `ollama create` itself errors with `unknown model architecture`.
+  Empirically (against dense `qwen35` 27B + `mmproj-F16`), `ollama
+  create` succeeds, `ollama show` even reports the `vision`
+  capability with a CLIP projector attached, and the architecture
+  error only fires from the runner on the first inference request —
+  at which point it blocks text inference too. Matches the upstream
+  issue's "blocks ALL inference" phrasing.
 - README: added a TL;DR section right after the intro paragraph so
   someone scanning the page gets a working command without scrolling
   past Why / What's here / Architecture.