Instructions to use thelamapi/next-4b with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use thelamapi/next-4b with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="thelamapi/next-4b")
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 AutoProcessor, AutoModelForImageTextToText

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("thelamapi/next-4b")
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("thelamapi/next-4b")
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?"}
        ]
    },
]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40)
print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

llama-cpp-python

How to use thelamapi/next-4b with llama-cpp-python:

# !pip install llama-cpp-python

from llama_cpp import Llama

llm = Llama.from_pretrained(
	repo_id="thelamapi/next-4b",
	filename="next-4b-f16.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 thelamapi/next-4b with llama.cpp:

Install from brew

brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama-server -hf thelamapi/next-4b:F16
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama-cli -hf thelamapi/next-4b:F16

Install from WinGet (Windows)

winget install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama-server -hf thelamapi/next-4b:F16
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama-cli -hf thelamapi/next-4b:F16

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 thelamapi/next-4b:F16
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./llama-cli -hf thelamapi/next-4b:F16

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 thelamapi/next-4b:F16
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./build/bin/llama-cli -hf thelamapi/next-4b:F16

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/thelamapi/next-4b:F16

LM Studio
Jan

vLLM

How to use thelamapi/next-4b with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "thelamapi/next-4b"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "thelamapi/next-4b",
		"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/thelamapi/next-4b:F16

SGLang

How to use thelamapi/next-4b 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 "thelamapi/next-4b" \
    --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": "thelamapi/next-4b",
		"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 "thelamapi/next-4b" \
        --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": "thelamapi/next-4b",
		"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 thelamapi/next-4b with Ollama:
```
ollama run hf.co/thelamapi/next-4b:F16
```

Unsloth Studio new

How to use thelamapi/next-4b 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 thelamapi/next-4b 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 thelamapi/next-4b to start chatting

Using HuggingFace Spaces for Unsloth

# No setup required
# Open https://huggingface.co/spaces/unsloth/studio in your browser
# Search for thelamapi/next-4b to start chatting

Docker Model Runner
How to use thelamapi/next-4b with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/thelamapi/next-4b:F16
```

Lemonade

How to use thelamapi/next-4b with Lemonade:

Pull the model

# Download Lemonade from https://lemonade-server.ai/
lemonade pull thelamapi/next-4b:F16

Run and chat with the model

lemonade run user.next-4b-F16

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added_tokens.json +3 -0
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preprocessor_config.json +29 -0
processor_config.json +4 -0
special_tokens_map.json +33 -0
tokenizer_config.json +0 -0

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+{
+  "<image_soft_token>": 262144
+}

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+{{ bos_token }}
+{%- if messages[0]['role'] == 'system' -%}
+    {%- if messages[0]['content'] is string -%}
+        {%- set first_user_prefix = messages[0]['content'] + '
+' -%}
+    {%- else -%}
+        {%- set first_user_prefix = messages[0]['content'][0]['text'] + '
+' -%}
+    {%- endif -%}
+    {%- set loop_messages = messages[1:] -%}
+{%- else -%}
+    {%- set first_user_prefix = "" -%}
+    {%- set loop_messages = messages -%}
+{%- endif -%}
+{%- for message in loop_messages -%}
+    {%- if (message['role'] == 'user') != (loop.index0 % 2 == 0) -%}
+        {{ raise_exception("Conversation roles must alternate user/assistant/user/assistant/...") }}
+    {%- endif -%}
+    {%- if (message['role'] == 'assistant') -%}
+        {%- set role = "model" -%}
+    {%- else -%}
+        {%- set role = message['role'] -%}
+    {%- endif -%}
+    {{ '<start_of_turn>' + role + '
+' + (first_user_prefix if loop.first else "") }}
+    {%- if message['content'] is string -%}
+        {{ message['content'] | trim }}
+    {%- elif message['content'] is iterable -%}
+        {%- for item in message['content'] -%}
+            {%- if item['type'] == 'image' -%}
+                {{ '<start_of_image>' }}
+            {%- elif item['type'] == 'text' -%}
+                {{ item['text'] | trim }}
+            {%- endif -%}
+        {%- endfor -%}
+    {%- else -%}
+        {{ raise_exception("Invalid content type") }}
+    {%- endif -%}
+    {{ '<end_of_turn>
+' }}
+{%- endfor -%}
+{%- if add_generation_prompt -%}
+    {{ '<start_of_turn>model
+' }}
+{%- endif -%}

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+{
+  "do_convert_rgb": null,
+  "do_normalize": true,
+  "do_pan_and_scan": null,
+  "do_rescale": true,
+  "do_resize": true,
+  "image_mean": [
+    0.5,
+    0.5,
+    0.5
+  ],
+  "image_processor_type": "Gemma3ImageProcessor",
+  "image_seq_length": 256,
+  "image_std": [
+    0.5,
+    0.5,
+    0.5
+  ],
+  "pan_and_scan_max_num_crops": null,
+  "pan_and_scan_min_crop_size": null,
+  "pan_and_scan_min_ratio_to_activate": null,
+  "processor_class": "Gemma3Processor",
+  "resample": 2,
+  "rescale_factor": 0.00392156862745098,
+  "size": {
+    "height": 896,
+    "width": 896
+  }
+}

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+{
+  "image_seq_length": 256,
+  "processor_class": "Gemma3Processor"
+}

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+{
+  "boi_token": "<start_of_image>",
+  "bos_token": {
+    "content": "<bos>",
+    "lstrip": false,
+    "normalized": false,
+    "rstrip": false,
+    "single_word": false
+  },
+  "eoi_token": "<end_of_image>",
+  "eos_token": {
+    "content": "<end_of_turn>",
+    "lstrip": false,
+    "normalized": false,
+    "rstrip": false,
+    "single_word": false
+  },
+  "image_token": "<image_soft_token>",
+  "pad_token": {
+    "content": "<pad>",
+    "lstrip": false,
+    "normalized": false,
+    "rstrip": false,
+    "single_word": false
+  },
+  "unk_token": {
+    "content": "<unk>",
+    "lstrip": false,
+    "normalized": false,
+    "rstrip": false,
+    "single_word": false
+  }
+}

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