Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
ConditionalMeta · Llama · Released 2024-07
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A mid-2024 workhorse dense model that still holds up for general reasoning and coding when 405B-class compute is not available.
Strengths
- +Strong general reasoning for a dense 70B
- +Wide third-party fine-tune and GGUF support
- +128K context window
Limitations
- -Needs 2+ high-VRAM GPUs or heavy quantization to self-host
- -Surpassed on most benchmarks by Llama 3.3 70B
License
Llama 3.1 Community License
free with acceptable-use or scale conditions - read it
Hardware
wants 24-48GB of VRAM - a 3090/4090-class card or better
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