ShieldVLM-7B-qwen
ShieldVLM-7B-qwen is a 7 billion parameter chat model from thu-coai, released July 19, 2025. ShieldVLM-7B-qwen is an open-weights chat model with roughly 7 billion parameters.
by thu-coai · 7B parameters
Best for
- low-latency chat and routing
- request routing and triage
- text classification
Ways to use ShieldVLM-7B-qwen in osFoundry
Connect with your own key (BYOK)
Open the key dialog and paste your thu-coai API key. osFoundry discovers ShieldVLM-7B-qwen 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
ShieldVLM-7B-qwen 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.
What hardware can run ShieldVLM-7B-qwen
ShieldVLM-7B-qwen runs on a single 16GB consumer GPU (~5 GB VRAM with KV-cache headroom). Full-precision inference fits on a single H100 80GB at FP16 precision (~17 GB).
ShieldVLM-7B-qwen vs similar models
Licence
Unspecified — Licence terms not specified — verify the upstream model card before commercial use.
Check upstream documentation.
Frequently asked about ShieldVLM-7B-qwen
Is ShieldVLM-7B-qwen free to use?
ShieldVLM-7B-qwen 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 ShieldVLM-7B-qwen commercially?
Commercial use is allowed with conditions. Licence terms not specified — verify the upstream model card before commercial use. Check upstream documentation.
How much VRAM does ShieldVLM-7B-qwen need?
Approximately 5 GB at Q4 quantisation, or 17 GB at full FP16 precision. Fits on a single 24GB consumer GPU.
Can I run ShieldVLM-7B-qwen locally?
Yes. ShieldVLM-7B-qwen is open-weights and runs locally on a workstation GPU. osFoundry's local runtime handles model loading, quantisation, and routing.
What is ShieldVLM-7B-qwen best at?
ShieldVLM-7B-qwen is well-suited to low-latency chat and routing, request routing and triage, text classification.
How do I use ShieldVLM-7B-qwen in osFoundry?
Paste your thu-coai API key in the key dialog (or deploy the open weights for self-hostable models), assign ShieldVLM-7B-qwen to a Maestro role in the Pipeline tab, then use it in chat, Room Apps via invokeAI, or your own apps.
Published by thu-coai on July 19, 2025. Source: https://huggingface.co/thu-coai/ShieldVLM-7B-qwen