tea
tea is a chat model from PickyBinders, released November 10, 2025. tea is an open-weights chat model.
by PickyBinders
Best for
- low-latency chat and routing
- request routing and triage
- text classification
Ways to use tea in osFoundry
Connect with your own key (BYOK)
Open the key dialog and paste your PickyBinders API key. osFoundry discovers tea 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
tea 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.
tea vs similar models
Licence
Unspecified — Licence terms not specified — verify the upstream model card before commercial use.
Check upstream documentation.
Frequently asked about tea
Is tea free to use?
tea 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 tea 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 tea locally?
Yes. tea is open-weights and runs locally on a workstation GPU. osFoundry's local runtime handles model loading, quantisation, and routing.
What is tea best at?
tea is well-suited to low-latency chat and routing, request routing and triage, text classification.
How do I use tea in osFoundry?
Paste your PickyBinders API key in the key dialog (or deploy the open weights for self-hostable models), assign tea to a Maestro role in the Pipeline tab, then use it in chat, Room Apps via invokeAI, or your own apps.
Published by PickyBinders on November 10, 2025. Source: https://huggingface.co/PickyBinders/tea