Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
- Task
- Text generation
- Category
- Language
- License
- Llama 3.1 license
- Commercial use
- Yes, with conditions
The publisher's own model license: commercial use is allowed under its terms, which include limits; read them before shipping. - Size
- About 8 billion parameters
- Memory to load
- ~20 GB (estimate)
- Format
- FP16
- Runs on
- GPU
- Access
- Gated: accept the publisher's terms on Hugging Face
- Downloads (last 30 days)
- 5.5M
- Likes
- 8.5K
- Last updated
- September 25, 2024
How to run it
These are full-precision weights, usually loaded with Hugging Face Transformers or Diffusers on a GPU.
Plan for roughly 20 GB of memory to load it (our estimate from its size and format).
Downloads are gated: accept the publisher's terms on Hugging Face first.
The model card on Hugging Face has the exact usage code.
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