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Meta-Llama-3.1

Meta-Llama-3.1 is an open-weight language model from NousResearch, 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.

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About

What Meta-Llama-3.1 is

Model Information The Meta Llama 3.1 collection of multilingual large language models (LLMs) is a collection of pretrained and instruction tuned generative models in 8B, 70B and 405B sizes (text in/text out). The Llama 3.1 instruction tuned text only models (8B, 70B, 405B) are optimized for multilingual dialogue use cases and outperform many of the available open source and closed chat models on common industry benchmarks. Model developer: Meta Model Architecture: Llama 3.1 is an auto-regressive language model that uses an optimized transformer architecture. The tuned versions use supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) to align with human preferences for helpfulness and safety. Supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, and Thai. Llama 3.1 family of models. Token counts refer to pretraining data only. All model versions use Grouped-Query Attention (GQA) for improved inference scalability. Model Release Date: July 23, 2024. Status: This is a static model trained on an offline dataset. Future versions of the tuned models will be released as we improve model safety with community feedback. License: A custom commercial license, the Llama 3.1 Community License, is available at: https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models/blob/main/models/llama31/LICENSE Where to send questions or comments about the model Instructions on how to provide feedback or comments on the model can be found in the model README. For more technical information about generation parameters and recipes for how to use Llama 3.1 in applications, please go here. Intended Use Intended Use Cases Llama 3.1 is intended for commercial and research use in multiple languages. Instruction tuned text only models are intended for assistant-like chat, whereas pretrained models can be adapted for a variety of natural language generation tasks. The Llama 3.1 model collection also supports the ability to leverage the outputs of its models to improve other models including synthetic data generation and distillation. The Llama 3.1 Community License allows for these use cases. Out-of-scope Use in any manner that violates applicable laws

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

MakerNousResearch
TypeLanguage models
Parameters (lead)8.0B
Context128k tokens
Variants2
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-07-24
Popularity289k downloads / month
Likes40
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-3.1-8B-Instruct8.0BBF16~18.5 GBWeights ↗
Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct70.6BBF16~162.3 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys nousresearch-meta-llama-3-1 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (nousresearch-meta-llama-3-1 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":"nousresearch-meta-llama-3-1","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

en de fr it pt hi es th

Tags

transformers safetensors llama text-generation facebook meta pytorch llama-3 conversational en de fr it pt

Papers

Licence

Open, with conditions

Open weights under llama3.1, 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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