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Intern-S2-Preview-FP8

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Introduction

We introduce Intern-S2-Preview , an efficient 35B scientific multimodal foundation model. Beyond conventional parameter and data scaling, Intern-S2-Preview explores task scaling : increasing the difficulty, diversity, and coverage of scientific tasks to further unlock model capabilities.

By extending professional scientific tasks into a full-chain training pipeline from pre-training to reinforcement learning, Intern-S2-Preview achieves performance comparable to the trillion-scale Intern-S1-Pro on multiple core professional scientific tasks, while using only 35B parameters (continued pretrained from Qwen3.5). At the same time, it maintains strong general reasoning, multimodal understanding, and agent capabilities.

Features

• Scientific task scaling with full-chain training. Intern-S2-Preview scales hundreds of professional scientific tasks from pre-training to RL, enabling strong performance across multiple specialized domains at only 35B parameters. It further strengthens spatial modeling for small-molecule structures and introduces real-valued prediction modules, making it the first open-source model with both material crystal structure generation capability and strong general capabilities.

• Enhanced agent capabilities for scientific workflows. Intern-S2-Preview significantly improves agentic abilities over the previous generation, achieving strong results on multiple scientific agent benchmarks.

• Efficient RL reasoning with MTP and CoT compression. During RL, Intern-S2-Preview adopts shared-weight MTP with KL loss to reduce the mismatch between training and inference behavior, substantially improving MTP accept rate and token generation speed. It also introduces CoT compression techniques to shorten responses while preserving strong reasoning capability, achieving improvements in both performance and efficiency.

Performance

We evaluate the Intern-S2-Preview on various benchmarks, including general datasets and scientific datasets. We report the performance comparison with the recent VLMs and LLMs below.

Note : Underline means the best performance among open-sourced models, Bold indicates the best performance among all models.

We use the OpenCompass and VLMEvalKit to evaluate all models. For text reasoning benchmarks, Intern-S2-Preview is evaluated with a maximum inference length of 128K tokens, while for multimodal benchmarks, it is evaluated with a maximum inference length of 64K tokens.

Quick Start

Sampling Parameters

We recommend using the following hyperparameters to ensure better results

top_p = 0.95
top_k = 50
min_p = 0.0
temperature = 0.8

Serving

Intern-S2-Preview can be deployed using any of the following LLM inference frameworks:

• LMDeploy
• vLLM
• SGLang

Detailed deployment examples for these frameworks are available in the Model Deployment Guide .

Advanced Usage

Tool Calling

Tool Calling lets the model extend its capabilities by invoking external tools and APIs. The example below shows how to use it to fetch the latest weather forecast via an OpenAI-compatible API (based on lmdeploy api server).

      

from openai import OpenAI
import json


def get_current_temperature(location: str, unit: str = "celsius"):
    """Get current temperature at a location.

    Args:
        location: The location to get the temperature for, in the format "City, State, Country".
        unit: The unit to return the temperature in. Defaults to "celsius". (choices: ["celsius", "fahrenheit"])

    Returns:
        the temperature, the location, and the unit in a dict
    """
    return {
        "temperature": 26.1,
        "location": location,
        "unit": unit,
    }


def get_temperature_date(location: str, date: str, unit: str = "celsius"):
    """Get temperature at a location and date.

    Args:
        location: The location to get the temperature for, in the format "City, State, Country".
        date: The date to get the temperature for, in the format "Year-Month-Day".
        unit: The unit to return the temperature in. Defaults to "celsius". (choices: ["celsius", "fahrenheit"])

    Returns:
        the temperature, the location, the date and the unit in a dict
    """
    return {
        "temperature": 25.9,
        "location": location,
        "date": date,
        "unit": unit,
    }

def get_function_by_name(name):
    if name == "get_current_temperature":
        return get_current_temperature
    if name == "get_temperature_date":
        return get_temperature_date

tools = [{
    'type': 'function',
    'function': {
        'name': 'get_current_temperature',
        'description': 'Get current temperature at a location.',
        'parameters': {
            'type': 'object',
            'properties': {
                'location': {
                    'type': 'string',
                    'description': 'The location to get the temperature for, in the format \'City, State, Country\'.'
                },
                'unit': {
                    'type': 'string',
                    'enum': [
                        'celsius',
                        'fahrenheit'
                    ],
                    'description': 'The unit to return the temperature in. Defaults to \'celsius\'.'
                }
            },
            'required': [
                'location'
            ]
        }
    }
}, {
    'type': 'function',
    'function': {
        'name': 'get_temperature_date',
        'description': 'Get temperature at a location and date.',
        'parameters': {
            'type': 'object',
            'properties': {
                'location': {
                    'type': 'string',
                    'description': 'The location to get the temperature for, in the format \'City, State, Country\'.'
                },
                'date': {
                    'type': 'string',
                    'description': 'The date to get the temperature for, in the format \'Year-Month-Day\'.'
                },
                'unit': {
                    'type': 'string',
                    'enum': [
                        'celsius',
                        'fahrenheit'
                    ],
                    'description': 'The unit to return the temperature in. Defaults to \'celsius\'.'
                }
            },
            'required': [
                'location',
                'date'
            ]
        }
    }
}]



messages = [
    {'role': 'user', 'content': 'Today is 2024-11-14, What\'s the temperature in San Francisco now? How about tomorrow?'}
]

openai_api_key = "EMPTY"
openai_api_base = "http://0.0.0.0:23333/v1"
client = OpenAI(
    api_key=openai_api_key,
    base_url=openai_api_base,
)
model_name = client.models.list().data[0].id
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model=model_name,
    messages=messages,
    max_tokens=32768,
    temperature=0.8,
    top_p=0.95,
    extra_body=dict(spaces_between_special_tokens=False),
    tools=tools)
print(response.choices[0].message)
messages.append(response.choices[0].message)

for tool_call in response.choices[0].message.tool_calls:
    tool_call_args = json.loads(tool_call.function.arguments)
    tool_call_result = get_function_by_name(tool_call.function.name)(**tool_call_args)
    tool_call_result = json.dumps(tool_call_result, ensure_ascii=False)
    messages.append({
        'role': 'tool',
        'name': tool_call.function.name,
        'content': tool_call_result,
        'tool_call_id': tool_call.id
    })

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model=model_name,
    messages=messages,
    temperature=0.8,
    top_p=0.95,
    extra_body=dict(spaces_between_special_tokens=False),
    tools=tools)
print(response.choices[0].message)

Switching Between Thinking and Non-Thinking Modes

Intern-S2-Preview enables thinking mode by default, enhancing the model's reasoning capabilities to generate higher-quality responses. This feature can be disabled by setting enable_thinking=False in tokenizer.apply_chat_template

text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
    enable_thinking=False  # think mode indicator
)

When serving Intern-S2-Preview models, you can dynamically control the thinking mode by adjusting the enable_thinking parameter in your requests.

from openai import OpenAI
import json

messages = [
{
    'role': 'user',
    'content': 'who are you'
}, {
    'role': 'assistant',
    'content': 'I am an AI'
}, {
    'role': 'user',
    'content': 'AGI is?'
}]

openai_api_key = "EMPTY"
openai_api_base = "http://0.0.0.0:23333/v1"
client = OpenAI(
    api_key=openai_api_key,
    base_url=openai_api_base,
)
model_name = client.models.list().data[0].id

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model=model_name,
    messages=messages,
    temperature=0.8,
    top_p=0.95,
    max_tokens=2048,
    extra_body={
        "chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": False}
    }
)
print(json.dumps(response.model_dump(), indent=2, ensure_ascii=False))

Note: We do not recommend disabling thinking mode for agentic tasks.

Agent Integration

Intern-S2-Preview can be plugged into agent frameworks in two ways: connecting to a self-hosted deployment , or calling the official InternLM API . Below we cover both, with examples for agent frameworks (OpenClaw, Hermes, etc.) and for Claude Code.

1. Self-hosted Deployment (LMDeploy as an example)

First, serve the model with LMDeploy following the Model Deployment Guide . The example below assumes the server is running at http://0.0.0.0:23333 .

Connecting Agent Frameworks

Most agent frameworks (OpenClaw, Hermes, etc.) accept an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Point them at the LMDeploy server base url http://0.0.0.0:23333/v1 .

You can check the connection with the following command:

curl http://0.0.0.0:23333/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer EMPTY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "internlm/Intern-S2-Preview",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}
    ],
    "temperature": 0.8,
    "top_p": 0.95
  }'

Or you can configure your agent framework with the environment variables

export OPENAI_API_KEY=EMPTY
export OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://0.0.0.0:23333/v1
export OPENAI_MODEL=internlm/Intern-S2-Preview

Remember to launch LMDeploy with --tool-call-parser interns2-preview so tool calls are parsed correctly.

Connecting Claude Code

LMDeploy exposes an Anthropic-compatible /v1/messages endpoint that Claude Code can talk to directly. Add the following to ~/.claude/settings.json :

{
  "env": {
    "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:23333",
    "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN": "dummy",
    "ANTHROPIC_MODEL": "internlm/Intern-S2-Preview",
    "ANTHROPIC_CUSTOM_MODEL_OPTION": "internlm/Intern-S2-Preview"
  }
}

For a full walkthrough (curl verification, model routing, troubleshooting), see LMDeploy × Claude Code .

2. Official Intern API

If you do not want to self-host, you can use the official Intern API. Register at internlm.intern-ai.org.cn and create an API token ( sk-xxxxxxxx ).

Connecting Agent Frameworks

The service is OpenAI-compatible, so any agent framework works. You can set the base url to https://chat.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1 and the model name to intern-s2-preview in the cli or config file.

You can check the connection with the following command:

curl https://chat.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-xxxxxxxx" \
  -d '{
    "model": "intern-s2-preview",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}
    ],
    "temperature": 0.8,
    "top_p": 0.95
  }'

Refer to the Intern API documentation for the current endpoint, available model names, rate limits, and advanced parameters.

Connecting Claude Code

Claude Code can route to the official Intern API by pointing ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL at the Intern Anthropic-compatible gateway:

{
  "env": {
    "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "http://chat.staging.intern-ai.org.cn",
    "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN": "your-api-token",
    "ANTHROPIC_MODEL": "intern-s2-preview",
    "ANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODEL": "intern-s2-preview"
  }
}

Then start claude code with the following command:

claude --model intern-s2-preview

For step-by-step setup, see Intern API × Claude Code Integration .