Yes, but also not easily right now. We’ll be adding more supported ways to load models soon, but right now things largely assume using our model registry (and API Key is how it validates who is authorized to use which models).

The “why” is because this has been an internal project for years that we just open sourced, and while it was internal this wasn’t needed. But we’ll add it soon! (PRs also welcome; we’re happy to talk through how that might be architected if you start an issue/discussion on the repo.)