Llama 3
Meta AI · · 275 days after Llama 2
Verified
3 of 3 published values traced to a source2 primary sources, 2 archived
Why this status
Every value this record asserts — date (April 18, 2024), context window (8,192) and parameter count (70B) — was found in an archived primary source, checked 2026-08-10. Modalities recorded as text-to-text. The primary source states the model is text-only. Capabilities evidenced from the primary sources: coding: “We also saw greatly improved capabilities like reasoning, code generation, and instruction following making Llama 3 more steerable.”.
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8B and 70B models with dramatically stronger reasoning that powered Meta's AI assistant.
Details
| Released | April 18, 2024stated in ai.meta.com, huggingface.coLlama 3 was released on April 18, 2024.
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| Company | Meta AI |
| Family | Llama |
| Lineage | after Llama 2 · before Llama 3.1 |
| Era | Multimodal & open weights |
| Type | Language model · LLM |
| Modalities | Text → Text |
| Capabilities | Coding |
| Weights | Open weights |
| Licence | Meta Llama 3 Community License |
| Context window | 8K tokensstated in ai.meta.comLlama 3 supports a context window of 8,192 tokens.
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| Parameters | 70Bstated in ai.meta.com, huggingface.coLlama 3 has 70,000,000,000 parameters.
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Current information, elsewhere
This record is a historical one: every figure above is traced to a dated primary source. For what is true today — live pricing, current rankings, availability — these are better maintained than anything here could be.
- Current price and providers OpenRouter ↗
- Current benchmark scores Artificial Analysis ↗
- Weights and model card Hugging Face ↗
Sources
Record status: verified · confidence 90/100 · 2 of 2 primary
Every value this record asserts — date (April 18, 2024), context window (8,192) and parameter count (70B) — was found in an archived primary source, checked 2026-08-10. Modalities recorded as text-to-text. The primary source states the model is text-only. Capabilities evidenced from the primary sources: coding: “We also saw greatly improved capabilities like reasoning, code generation, and instruction following making Llama 3 more steerable.”.
- ai.meta.com Official announcement archived
- huggingface.co Model card archived
Primary means published by the organisation that made the model. Verified records require at least one.
Llama family
- Llama 1 February 24, 2023
- Llama 2 July 18, 2023
- Llama 3 April 18, 2024
- Llama 3.1 July 23, 2024
- Llama 3.2 September 25, 2024
- Llama 4 Scout April 5, 2025
- Llama 4 Maverick April 5, 2025
- Llama 5 April 8, 2026
What changed from Llama 2
Compared with the previous release in this series. A field appears only when both records state a value — where one does not, it is listed as uncomparable rather than dropped, because a gap in our research is not a finding about the model.
- Context window4K → 8K
- LicenceLlama 2 Community License → Meta Llama 3 Community License
- Capabilities first evidencedcoding
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