# LLaMA 3 (8B/70B)

LLaMA 3 (8B/70B) is an AI model released by Meta on Apr 18 2024. It has open weight.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Model | LLaMA 3 (8B/70B) |
| Developer | Meta |
| Release date | Thursday, Apr 18 2024 |
| Licensing | Open Weight |

## Questions and answers

### When was LLaMA 3 (8B/70B) released?

LLaMA 3 (8B/70B) was released by Meta on Thursday, Apr 18 2024.

### Who made LLaMA 3 (8B/70B)?

LLaMA 3 (8B/70B) was built by Meta. Develops the open-weight Llama series of models. Committed to open-source AI research.

### Is LLaMA 3 (8B/70B) open source?

Partly. LLaMA 3 (8B/70B) is an open-weight model: the trained weights are free to download and run locally or on your own infrastructure, but the training data and code are not fully released and the license may restrict some commercial uses. It is not open source in the strict sense.

### What came before and after LLaMA 3 (8B/70B)?

Meta's previous tracked release was Code Llama 70B on Jan 29 2024, 80 days earlier. It was followed by LLaMA 3.1 on Jul 23 2024.


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Canonical page: https://aireleasetracker.com/model/meta/llama-3-(8b-70b)
Full dataset: https://aireleasetracker.com/llms-full.txt · JSON: https://aireleasetracker.com/models.json
Source: AI Release Tracker (https://aireleasetracker.com). Benchmark scores are the figures published by the releasing lab at launch.