Meta Llama

Meta's Llama series is the most widely adopted family of open-source large language models, with Llama 3 achieving near-frontier performance in a freely downloadable, commercially usable package. Llama models power thousands of applications, fine-tuned variants, and research projects globally. Available in 8B, 70B, and 405B parameter sizes on HuggingFace and Meta's website. Llama's open release has democratised AI development by giving developers and researchers access to powerful foundation models without API costs or usage restrictions.