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Llama 3.1 8B

Released on Jul 23, 2024

The de-facto local workhorse: solid quality, 131K-token context and a huge GGUF quantization ecosystem. The standard choice for chat and assistants.

Features

  • 8B params
  • 131K context
  • GGUF ecosystem
  • Wide quant availability

Version history

  1. Llama 4 ScoutLatest

    Prima generazione Llama nativamente multimodale e MoE, con 109B totali, 17B attivi e contesto da 10M token.

  2. Llama 3.2

    Nuove taglie da 1B e 3B ottimizzate per l'edge, affiancate dai modelli vision da 11B e 90B.

  3. Llama 3.1 8B

    Il contesto è passato da 8K a 128K token, con miglioramenti nel post-training e nel multilinguismo.

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