According to Meta, the release of Llama 3 features pretrained and instruction fine-tuned language models with 8B and 70B parameter counts that can support a broad range of use cases including summarization, classification, information extraction, and content grounded question and answering. The 8B model is designed for faster training and edge devices, while the 70B model is designed for content creation, conversational AI, language understanding, research and development and enterprise applications. Meta has stated Llama 3 is demonstrating improved performance when compared to Llama 2 based on Meta’s internal testing. In the coming months, Meta expects to introduce new capabilities, additional model sizes, and enhanced performance, and the Llama 3 research paper.
To access Llama-3, follow these steps:
- Go to this link Meta-Llama-3-8B.
- Apply for Llama-3 access.
- Once approved, you will receive an email in your inbox.
- Create a HuggingFace access token.
- Define your token as
YOUR_HuggingFACE_API_KEY
.