Llama 3 — Open Model That Is Truly Useful?

Are we approaching a time when we can have a truly useful open model?

Venelin Valkov
13 min readApr 30, 2024

The release of Llama 3 brings us closer to this reality. With two available sizes — 8B and 70B — the model is designed to be more useful and practical for a wide range of applications. Let’s dive into the details of Llama 3 and explore its potential applications.

Llama 3

Now available with both 8B and 70B pretrained and instruction-tuned versions to support a wide range of applications

Here are the key features of Llama 3:

In benchmarks, Llama 3 has shown impressive performance across various tasks:

Even on the LMSYS Leaderboard, Llama 3 (70B) has shown impressive performance — the first open model to beat some versions of GPT-4 and Claude 3.

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