Instructions to use Open-Bee/Bee-8B-RL with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use Open-Bee/Bee-8B-RL with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="Open-Bee/Bee-8B-RL", trust_remote_code=True)
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("Open-Bee/Bee-8B-RL", trust_remote_code=True, dtype="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use Open-Bee/Bee-8B-RL with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "Open-Bee/Bee-8B-RL"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Open-Bee/Bee-8B-RL",
		"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/Open-Bee/Bee-8B-RL

SGLang

How to use Open-Bee/Bee-8B-RL 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 "Open-Bee/Bee-8B-RL" \
    --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": "Open-Bee/Bee-8B-RL",
		"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 "Open-Bee/Bee-8B-RL" \
        --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": "Open-Bee/Bee-8B-RL",
		"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"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use Open-Bee/Bee-8B-RL with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/Open-Bee/Bee-8B-RL
```

Local Installation Video and Testing - Step by Step

by fahdmirzac - opened Oct 18, 2025

Discussion

fahdmirzac

Oct 18, 2025

Hi,
Kudos on producing such a sublime model. I did a local installation and testing video :

https://youtu.be/0vvCHGV-xgk?si=J2RHRiBkCFT0BGc-

Thanks and regards,
Fahd

uyzhang

Open-Bee org Oct 19, 2025

Hi Fahd,

Thank you for the wonderful feedback! We're thrilled you're enjoying the model. We appreciate you sharing your testing video.

All the best

uyzhang changed discussion status to closed Dec 1, 2025

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