Introducing Llama 3.1: The Latest Advancement in AI Technology

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Meta AI has unveiled Llama 3.1, their most capable AI model to date. This new release includes the flagship Llama 3.1 405B, an open-source model that rivals top proprietary models in general knowledge, tool use, and multilingual translation.

Introducing Llama 3.1 405B Instruct: The Latest Advancement in AI Technology

Key Features:

1. Expanded Context Length: The model supports up to 128K context length, enhancing its ability to handle long-form content and complex tasks.
2. Multilingual Capabilities: Enhanced support for eight languages, broadening its usability across different regions.
3. Model Architecture: Built on a standard decoder-only transformer model, optimized for stability and performance.
4. Training Scale: Trained on over 15 trillion tokens using 16,000 H100 GPUs.
5. Openness and Customization: Weights are openly available for download, allowing developers to customize and fine-tune the models for specific applications.

Applications:

• Synthetic Data Generation: To train smaller models and enable model distillation.
• Long-Form Text Summarization: Ideal for creating detailed summaries of extensive documents.
• Multilingual Conversational Agents: Facilitates the creation of AI that can converse in multiple languages seamlessly.
• Coding Assistants: Enhanced capabilities to aid in coding and technical tasks.

Ecosystem and Partnerships:

• Llama 3.1 is supported by over 25 partners, including AWS, NVIDIA, Databricks, and more, ensuring robust ecosystem integration from day one.
• Introduction of Llama Guard 3 and Prompt Guard for improved security and safety in AI development.

Vision: Meta aims to empower developers with tools to create custom AI agents and new agentic behaviors, contributing to a broad and flexible AI ecosystem.

Benchmarks:

https://ollama.com/library/llama3.1

https://ollama.com/library/llama3.1

https://ollama.com/library/llama3.1

Running Llama 3.1 405B on AWS Bedrock:

In the following article, I explained how to run Llama3.1 405B on Bedrock

Introducing Llama 3.1 405B Instruct: The Latest Advancement in AI Technology

Running Llama3.1 405B locally using Ollama:

Llama3.1 8B, 70B, and 405B are available on Ollama. The following article explains in detail how to install Llama3.1:8B locally using Ollama:

Running Llama 3.1 on Ollama: A Step-by-Step Guide

Llama3.1 405B is also available on Ollama. The following steps will explain how to install an run:

1. Follow the following article to install Ollama:

Ollama with LangChain for Local LLMs Applications

2. Download Llama3.1 405B

library

Ollama pull llama3.1:405b

After that, you can invoke as any other model

Conclusion:

With the release of Llama 3.1, Meta continues its commitment to open-source AI, fostering innovation and accessibility across the AI community.