Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

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Meta · Llama · Released 2024-07

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The default pick for a local 8B chat model: strong instruction following for its size, easy to quantize and run on a single consumer GPU.

Strengths

  • +Runs comfortably on 8-16GB consumer GPUs
  • +Broad tool and fine-tune ecosystem
  • +Solid multilingual coverage for its size

Limitations

  • -Custom license restricts use above 700M MAU without a separate agreement
  • -Weaker long-context reasoning than larger siblings

License

Llama 3.1 Community License

free with acceptable-use or scale conditions - read it

Hardware

runs on a good consumer GPU (or Apple Silicon) with quantization

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