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Meta-Llama-3

Meta-Llama-3 is an open-weight language model from meta-llama, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

LLMs meta-llama 2 variants 1.7M downloads/mo
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Specifications

What it is

Makermeta-llama
TypeLanguage models
Parameters (lead)8.0B
Variants2
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-04-17
Popularity1.7M downloads / month
Likes6,635
LicenceOpen, with conditions

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct8.0BBF16~18.5 GBWeights ↗
Meta-Llama-3-70B70.6BBF16~162.3 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys meta-llama-3 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (meta-llama-3 below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"meta-llama-3","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

en

Tags

transformers safetensors llama text-generation facebook meta pytorch llama-3 conversational en eval-results text-generation-inference endpoints_compatible deploy:sagemaker

Licence

Open, with conditions

Open weights under llama3, which carries conditions (e.g. attribution or an acceptable-use clause). Worth a read before production use — we can walk you through it. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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