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Llama 3.1 8B
Model family: llama-3-1
Meta's Llama 3.1 8B base modelA model straight out of pretraining, before any fine-tuning for chat or specific tasks. Base models predict the next token but don't follow instructions well — they'll continue your prompt rather than respond to it. Most people never use base models directly; they use the instruct-tuned or chat versions built on top. Useful mostly for researchers and people doing their own fine-tuning. — 8B parameters, 128K context, multilingual. Base variant for fine-tuning; the Instruct variant has a full catalog entry.
Identity
- Creator
- Meta
- Model family
- llama-3-1
- Release date
- 2024-07-22
- Version history
- 3.0 · 2024-04-18T00:00:00.000Z — Initial Llama 3 release; 8K context
- 3.1 · 2024-07-23T00:00:00.000Z — Extended to 128K context; improved multilingual support
Technical specs
- Parameter count
- 8.03B
- Context window
- 131K tokens
- Modalities
- Text
- Primary capabilities
- Long Context
- Multilingual
License
- License
- Llama 3.1 Community License
- Commercial use
- Conditional
Free for commercial use unless the licensee's product has 700 million monthly active users measured at Llama 3.1 release date.
- Terms
- Modification ✓
- Redistribution ✓
- Attribution ✓
Access
- Openness
- Open Weight
- Access methods
- Local Runtime Llama Cpp
- Local Runtime Ollama
- Local Runtime Vllm
- Weights Download Direct
- Weights Download Hf
- Cost tier
- Mixed
- llm
- open-weight
- commercial-friendly
- small-to-mid
- long-context
- multilingual
- us-based
- base-model