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Llama 3 Instruct 70B

Meta's 70B-parameter Llama 3 model, instruction-tuned for dialogue and code generation with strong benchmark results across reasoning and language tasks.

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The 70B variant debuted on ChatBot Arena with an ELO of roughly 1207, placing it between GPT-4-0613 and GPT-4 Turbo as the first open-weight model to compete directly with GPT-4 on human preference rankings. It scores 81.7% on HumanEval, surpassing GPT-4-0613 on code generation, and 82.0% on MMLU across 80 transformer layers.

Licensellama3
Context window(in thousands)8192

Use cases for Llama 3 Instruct 70B

  1. Open-weight GPT-4 alternative: With an ELO of 1207 on Chatbot Arena and 82.0% on MMLU, it provides GPT-4-competitive quality in environments requiring self-hosted inference and full weight access.
  2. High-accuracy code generation: Scoring 81.7% on HumanEval, it surpasses GPT-4-0613 on code tasks, making it suited for automated programming pipelines running on private infrastructure.
  3. Enterprise-scale reasoning: At 70B parameters with DPO alignment, it handles complex multi-turn advisory workflows in legal, financial, and technical domains without sending data to external APIs.

Quality

Arena Elo1206
MMLU82
MT BenchN/A

Llama 3 70B Instruct scores 82.0% on MMLU (5-shot) and 81.7% on HumanEval, placing it between GPT-4 (86.4% MMLU) and Llama 2 70B Chat (68.9% MMLU) on the same sheet. On code generation it surpasses GPT-4 (67.0% HumanEval), making it the first open-weight model to beat a GPT-4 variant on a major benchmark.

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

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GPT-4 0125 Preview

1245

Llama 3 Instruct 70B

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GPT-4 0314

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GPT-4

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pricing

The cost per 1,000 tokens for utilizing the model with Telnyx Inference stands at $0.0010. To provide a perspective, analyzing 1,000,000 customer chats, presuming each chat is 1,000 tokens long, would cost $1,000.

What's Twitter saying?

  • Developers praise Llama 3.3 70B Instruct for exceptional instruction following, scoring 99.2% on benchmarks and outperforming Llama 3.1 405B in tests on IBM WatsonX.ai.
  • Benchmarks show Llama 3 70B excels in Python coding (15% better than GPT-4), grade school math, and cost-efficiency (up to 50x cheaper, 10x faster), but lags in complex reasoning.
  • Community notes Llama 3 70B Instruct is highly helpful with fewer false refusals than Llama 2, optimized via SFT and RLHF for dialogue and outperforming open-source peers on MMLU (82.0).

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faqs

Is Llama 3.1 70B Instruct free?

Llama 3 70B Instruct is released under Meta's community license, which permits free use for commercial applications. Weights are available on Hugging Face and through hosted inference providers.

What is Llama 3.1 70B Instruct?

Llama 3 70B Instruct is Meta's instruction-tuned 70 billion parameter model, optimized for dialogue, code generation, and complex reasoning. It is available through Telnyx's inference platform and other hosted providers.

What is the difference between Llama normal and instruct?

The base Llama model is trained for next-token prediction, while the Instruct variant is fine-tuned with RLHF for following instructions and dialogue. The Instruct version is what most applications should use for chat and task completion.

What is Llama 3 Instruct?

Llama 3 Instruct refers to Meta's family of instruction-tuned models available in 8B and 70B sizes. The 70B variant delivers strong reasoning and coding performance, competitive with proprietary models at a fraction of the cost.

How does Llama 3 70B compare to GPT-4?

Llama 3 70B approaches GPT-4-level performance on many benchmarks, particularly coding and multilingual tasks. For production deployments, it offers a self-hostable alternative to proprietary API-only models.

What GPU do you need for Llama 3 70B?

Running Llama 3 70B at full precision requires approximately 140GB of VRAM, typically two A100 80GB GPUs. With quantization, a single 48GB GPU can handle it, or you can use hosted inference to avoid GPU provisioning entirely.

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