Instructions to use Outlier-Ai/Outlier-40B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use Outlier-Ai/Outlier-40B with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="Outlier-Ai/Outlier-40B")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Outlier-Ai/Outlier-40B")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Outlier-Ai/Outlier-40B", device_map="auto")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
inputs = tokenizer.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(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use Outlier-Ai/Outlier-40B with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "Outlier-Ai/Outlier-40B"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Outlier-Ai/Outlier-40B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/Outlier-Ai/Outlier-40B

SGLang

How to use Outlier-Ai/Outlier-40B 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 "Outlier-Ai/Outlier-40B" \
    --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": "Outlier-Ai/Outlier-40B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

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 "Outlier-Ai/Outlier-40B" \
        --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": "Outlier-Ai/Outlier-40B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use Outlier-Ai/Outlier-40B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/Outlier-Ai/Outlier-40B
```

Superseded. This repo is a research artifact from an earlier Outlier lineage and is no longer the recommended download. The current shipping tier is at outlier.host.

Outlier-40B

This repo predates the v1.8 Outlier lineup. It is preserved here for reproducibility and historical reference, not as a production recommendation.

What replaced it

Current shipping tiers (see Outlier app v1.8+):

For the latest verified benchmarks and downloads, visit outlier.host.

Original notes

This was a research / preview artifact. It may contain experimental adapters, overlays, or quantization variants that did not graduate into the shipping product. Treat any technical claims in earlier revisions of this card as provisional.