Llama 3.1 8B is a text-generation model hosted on Hugging Face under the identifier meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B. It belongs to the class of foundation models and carries the pipeline tag text-generation.
The model is made available through the Hugging Face platform where it can be accessed for download and inference. It uses the transformers library and includes a tokenizer configuration with defined beginning-of-text and end-of-text tokens. Inference providers such as featherless-ai list it with live status for the text-generation task.
Uploaded in July 2024 and last modified in October 2024, the model has recorded more than 26 million all-time downloads and maintains an active community presence with over two thousand likes. It appears in collections and supports integration within the broader Hugging Face ecosystem of models, datasets, and spaces.
No specific licensing, pricing, or target user roles are stated on the page. The surrounding Hugging Face site promotes open source and open science as part of its mission.
In the Foundation models & chat space, Llama 3.1 8B takes a focused approach. It focuses on providing an open-source, high-performance language model for text generation and research applications. It is built as an open-source project for ai researchers. Llama 3.1 8B is open source under the Open Source license. It runs on the web, the command line, and API, and it can be self-hosted.
Behind Llama 3.1 8B is Meta, and the product first shipped in 2024. The category is crowded — PulseGate's index counts 24 comparable apps. Key capabilities include text generation, open weights, and transformer architecture. It exposes integrations via a public API.
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