---
license: llama3
pipeline_tag: text-generation
tags:
- cortex.cpp
---

## Overview

Meta developed and released the [Meta Llama 3](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B) family of large language models (LLMs), a collection of pretrained and instruction tuned generative text models in 8 and 70B sizes. The Llama 3 instruction tuned models are optimized for dialogue use cases and outperform many of the available open source chat models on common industry benchmarks. Further, in developing these models, we took great care to optimize helpfulness and safety.

## Variants

| No | Variant | Cortex CLI command |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Llama3-8b](https://huggingface.co/cortexso/llama3/tree/8b) | `cortex run llama3:8b` |

## Use it with Jan (UI)

1. Install **Jan** using [Quickstart](https://jan.ai/docs/quickstart)
2. Use in Jan model Hub:
    ```bash
    cortexso/llama3
    ```

## Use it with Cortex (CLI)

1. Install **Cortex** using [Quickstart](https://cortex.jan.ai/docs/quickstart)
2. Run the model with command:
    ```bash
    cortex run llama3
    ```

## Credits

- **Author:** Meta
- **Converter:** [Homebrew](https://www.homebrew.ltd/)
- **Original License:** [License](https://llama.meta.com/llama3/license/)
- **Papers:** [Llama-3 Blog](https://llama.meta.com/llama3/)