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# MoonDream 

<Note>
  This page documents the `grid.model.*` local inference wrapper. For cloud-hosted inference via **GRID Cortex**, see the [Cortex Moondream page](/models/cortex/moondream).
</Note>

The `MoonDream` class provides a wrapper for the MoonDream v3 model, which answers questions
about visual media (images).

<ResponseField name="class MoonDream()">
  <ResponseField name="use_local" type="boolean" default="False">
    If True, inference call is run on the local VM, else offloaded onto GRID-Cortex. Defaults to False.
  </ResponseField>
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="def run()">
  <ResponseField name="rgbimage" type="np.ndarray" required="True">
    The input RGB image of shape $(M,N,3)$.
  </ResponseField>

  <ResponseField name="prompt" type="str" required="True">
    The question to answer about the media.
  </ResponseField>

  <ResponseField name="Returns" type="str">
    The response to the prompt.
  </ResponseField>
</ResponseField>

<RequestExample>
  ```python Inference Call theme={null}
  from grid.model.perception.vlm.moondream import MoonDream
  car = AirGenCar()

  # We will be capturing an image from the AirGen simulator 
  # and run model inference on it.

  img =  car.getImage("front_center", "rgb").data

  model = MoonDream(use_local = False)
  result = model.run(rgbimage=img, prompt=<prompt>)
  print(result)
  ```
</RequestExample>

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="License">
    This code is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Source">
    [https://github.com/vikhyat/moondream](https://github.com/vikhyat/moondream)
  </Tab>
</Tabs>