Llama 3

The most capable openly available LLM to date.

Meta Llama 3, a family of models developed by Meta Inc. are new state-of-the-art , available in both 8B and 70B parameter sizes (pre-trained or instruction-tuned).

Llama 3 instruction-tuned models are fine-tuned and optimized for dialogue/chat use cases and outperform many of the available open-source chat models on common benchmarks.

CLI

Open the terminal and run ollama run llama3

API

Example using curl:

curl -X POST http://localhost:11434/api/generate -d '{
  "model": "llama3",
  "prompt":"Why is the sky blue?"
 }'

API documentation

Model variants

Instruct is fine-tuned for chat/dialogue use cases.

Example: ollama run llama3 ollama run llama3:70b

Pre-trained is the base model.

Example: ollama run llama3:text ollama run llama3:70b-text

References

Introducing Meta Llama 3: The most capable openly available LLM to date