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Meta-Llama-3

Meta-Llama-3 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 is

Model Details Meta developed and released the Meta Llama 3 family of large language models (LLMs), a collection of pretrained and instruction tuned generative text models in 8 and 70B sizes. The Llama 3 instruction tuned models are optimized for dialogue use cases and outperform many of the available open source chat models on common industry benchmarks. Further, in developing these models, we took great care to optimize helpfulness and safety. Model developers Meta Variations Llama 3 comes in two sizes — 8B and 70B parameters — in pre-trained and instruction tuned variants. Input Models input text only. Output Models generate text and code only. Model Architecture Llama 3 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. Llama 3 family of models. Token counts refer to pretraining data only. Both the 8 and 70B versions use Grouped-Query Attention (GQA) for improved inference scalability. Model Release Date April 18, 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 is available at: https://llama.meta.com/llama3/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 in applications, please go here. Intended Use Intended Use Cases Llama 3 is intended for commercial and research use in English. Instruction tuned models are intended for assistant-like chat, whereas pretrained models can be adapted for a variety of natural language generation tasks. Out-of-scope Use in any manner that violates applicable laws or regulations (including trade compliance laws). Use in any other way that is prohibited by the Acceptable Use Policy and Llama 3 Community License. Use in languages other than English. Note: Developers may fine-t

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Specifications

What it is

MakerNousResearch
TypeLanguage models
Parameters (lead)8.0B
Context8k tokens
Variants2
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-04-18
Popularity99k downloads / month
Likes103
LicenceCommercial licence needed

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-3-70B-Instruct70.6BBF16~162.3 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys nousresearch-meta-llama-3 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (nousresearch-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":"nousresearch-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 text-generation-inference endpoints_compatible deploy:azure

Licence

Commercial licence needed

The weights are open but its licence needs a commercial agreement for business use. AxForge can arrange that licence and host the model for you — you pay AxForge, we settle with the model’s maker. Ask us for a quote. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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