meta-llama/llama3

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

The official Meta repository for Llama 3, providing model weights download scripts, tokenizer, and minimal example code for running inference with 8B and 70B pre-trained and instruction-tuned language models. The repo is now deprecated in favor of the consolidated Llama Stack repositories such as llama-models and llama-toolchain.

Use cases

• download llama 3 model weights
• run inference with llama 3 locally
• get llama 3 tokenizer example code
• experiment with open-source 8B and 70B language models
• fine-tune llama 3 starting code
• access meta llama models on hugging face

When to choose

• you specifically need the original Llama 3 weights, download script, or reference inference code
• you want a minimal example of loading and running Llama 3 models

When to avoid

• you are starting a new project - use the successor repos like meta-llama/llama-models or llama-toolchain instead
• you need fine-tuning recipes, agentic systems, or safety tooling, which moved to llama-cookbook, llama-agentic-system, and PurpleLlama
• you need a maintained inference library rather than example code

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

llm-inference machine-learning sdk large-language-models artificial-intelligence deep-learning python cross-platform llama-3 model-weights deprecated meta open-weights tokenizer gpu linux

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