Llama 3 is Meta’s latest-generation large language model released in 2024.
Llama 3 Has Three Models
you’re free to access three versions of Llama 3.
Llama 3.1 70B is a more compact model trained on a more modest 70 billion parameters.
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It’s faster and leaner than the 405B model, requiring far less processing power to run.
Its smaller data set makes it cheaper and faster and allows it to work on some commercial hardware.
It retains the large context window of the 405B model but lacks its depth or breadth of abilities.
The 70B model can take on medium AI tasks, such as running chatbots for customer support.
Llama 3.1 8B is the leanest of the models, trained on “just” eight billion parameters.
In benchmarks with other high-end LLMs, Llama 3.1 did very well.
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Llama 3 is excellent at coding.
It supports over 30 languages, although it’s still best when working with English.
Like most LLM AIs, Llama 3 is fantastic at generating text for writing purposes, too.
That goes for business scenarios, fiction, and prose, or social media posts.
Llama 3 has more advanced safeguards than previous generations of this LLM.
These applications are also open-source.
Image generation is not widely available, and it can’t generate video or audio.
Its capabilities in languages other than English are still limited, too.
The other models are impressive, but they don’t deliver the same kind of capabilities.
Llama 3 was also incredibly expensive to train.
It required the use of thousands of Nvidia H100 GPUs for an extended period of time.
you could also use Llama 3 on platforms like HuggingFace that give access to open-source large language models.
Alternatively, you candownload and install GPT4All.
It’ll let you interact with a range of large language models, including Llama 3 locally.
Note, however, that performance when using high-end models is significantly reduced compared to cloud-based LLMs.
