Instructions to use HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M")

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M", device_map="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M

SGLang

How to use HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M 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 "HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

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 "HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M
```

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 ## Acknowledgements
 Carbon is a joint collaboration between the research teams at Hugging Face, Zhongguancun Academy, and TIGEM/University of Naples “Federico II”.

 ## Acknowledgements
 Carbon is a joint collaboration between the research teams at Hugging Face, Zhongguancun Academy, and TIGEM/University of Naples “Federico II”.
+## Citation
+```
+@article{allal2026carbon,
+  title={Carbon: Decoding the Language of Life},
+  author={Allal, Loubna Ben and Li, Qiuyi and Fiusco, Maurizio and Tunstall, Lewis and Rasul, Kashif and Beeching, Ed and Aubakirova, Dana and Pati{\~n}o, Carlos and Frere, Thibaud and Lozhkov, Anton and others},
+  journal={bioRxiv},
+  pages={2026--05},
+  year={2026},
+  publisher={Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}
+}
+```