Llama 3

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Llama 3 represents a significant upgrade in Meta AI's family of large language models, setting new standards for open LLMs. Released in April 2024, the Llama 3 8B and 70B parameter models were trained on an unprecedented amount of data—over 15 trillion tokens, 7 times more than Llama 2. This significantly improved the models' capabilities in language understanding, code generation, reasoning, and following complex instructions. Llama 3 demonstrates state-of-the-art performance on standard benchmarks, often outperforming other open models of comparable size and competing with some proprietary systems. Meta paid special attention to reducing false refusals and improving model steerability. All released Llama 3 models feature an 8K token context window, allowing them to process large amounts of information. A key aspect of Llama 3, like Llama 2, is its open license (Llama 3 Community License), which permits both research and commercial use, fostering innovation within the AI community. The models are available for download via Hugging Face and are integrated into many cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Databricks, etc.) and hardware solutions (NVIDIA, Intel, AMD). Meta plans to release even larger and multimodal versions of Llama 3 in the future (including a 400B+ parameter model), further expanding their capabilities. Llama 3 provides a powerful foundation for building chatbots, content generation systems, developer tools, and other AI applications.