# Loading a model in an app when using HF Spaces

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/loading-a-model-in-an-app-when-using-hf-spaces/63624>\
**Category:** Beginners\
**Created:** [November 26, 2023, 10:40pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/loading-a-model-in-an-app-when-using-hf-spaces/63624 "2023-11-26T22:40:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![aleyfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@aleyfin](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/aleyfin)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 10:40pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/loading-a-model-in-an-app-when-using-hf-spaces/63624/1 "2023-11-26T22:40:44Z")

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Hi,

I really love the concept of Huggingface Spaces. It works great for simple apps. But apps loading models from Huggingface does not work, I get the following:

`OSError: We couldn't connect to 'https://huggingface.co' to load this file, couldn't find it in the cached files and it looks like Intel/neural-chat-7b-v3-1 is not the path to a directory containing a file named config.json. Checkout your internet connection or see how to run the library in offline mode at 'https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/installation#offline-mode'.`

Does this mean that the docker-based Space cannot access internet models and that I need to download model files locally? Thanks!