Lizard-17m
Lizard-17m (LizardModels, 2025) is an chat model. Lizard-17m is an open-weights chat model.
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Ways to use Lizard-17m in osFoundry
Connect with your own key (BYOK)
Open the key dialog and paste your LizardModels API key. osFoundry discovers Lizard-17m automatically — assign it to a Maestro role (router, direct, orchestrator, or fallback) in the Pipeline tab and it is live in every chat. Your key, your provider account — no token markup.
Deploy a dedicated endpoint
Lizard-17m is open-weights — run it locally for free, or deploy a dedicated GPU endpoint in your workspace for reserved capacity with no rate limits.
Use it in a Room App
Room Apps declare AI features in their manifest, then call them with invokeAI:
import { invokeAI } from '@osfoundry/app-sdk'
// 'summarize' is an AI feature declared in your app manifest.
const result = await invokeAI('summarize', userText)
Call it from your own apps
Once a model is wired into your workspace you can host it as an API and reach it from your own services, scripts, or CI — outside osFoundry.
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Licence
Unspecified — Licence terms not specified — verify the upstream model card before commercial use.
Check upstream documentation.
Frequently asked about Lizard-17m
Is Lizard-17m free to use?
Lizard-17m is free to run locally on your own hardware. Hosted access through osFoundry is metered (input Free (local), output Free (local)). You can switch between local and hosted at any time.
Can I use Lizard-17m commercially?
Commercial use is allowed with conditions. Licence terms not specified — verify the upstream model card before commercial use. Check upstream documentation.
Can I run Lizard-17m locally?
Yes. Lizard-17m is open-weights and runs locally on a workstation GPU. osFoundry's local runtime handles model loading, quantisation, and routing.
What is Lizard-17m best at?
Lizard-17m is well-suited to text generation.
How do I use Lizard-17m in osFoundry?
Paste your LizardModels API key in the key dialog (or deploy the open weights for self-hostable models), assign Lizard-17m to a Maestro role in the Pipeline tab, then use it in chat, Room Apps via invokeAI, or your own apps.
Published by LizardModels on September 4, 2025. Source: https://huggingface.co/LizardModels/Lizard-17m