Meta's largest open model: closed-frontier quality but datacenter requirements. In practice it needs high-VRAM multi-GPU or the cloud.
Llama 3.1 70B
Released on Jul 23, 2024
Frontier-class open model with 131K-token context. Needs 48-80GB VRAM, a Mac with unified memory, or a multi-GPU setup.
Features
- 70B params
- 131K context
- Frontier class
- 48GB+ VRAM
Version history
- Llama 4 ScoutLatest
Prima generazione Llama nativamente multimodale e MoE, con 109B totali, 17B attivi e contesto da 10M token.
- Llama 3.2
Nuove taglie da 1B e 3B ottimizzate per l'edge, affiancate dai modelli vision da 11B e 90B.
- Llama 3.1 70B
Il contesto è passato da 8K a 128K token, con miglioramenti nel post-training e nel multilinguismo.
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