Llama

3 entries between July 2023 and July 2024, 5 releases.

Every entry

  1. Meta releases Llama 3.1 with a 405-billion-parameter model

    Meta released Llama 3.1 on 23 July 2024, including a 405-billion-parameter model it called the largest openly available foundation model to date, with a 128,000-token context window. Meta said it matched GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on knowledge, math, and tool-use benchmarks.

  2. Meta releases Llama 3 under an open license

    Meta released the first Llama 3 models, at 8 billion and 70 billion parameters, on 18 April 2024 under a license permitting most commercial use. Meta said the 70B model beat comparable models, including Claude 3 Sonnet, on human evaluations across twelve use cases.

  3. Meta releases Llama 2 with weights free for commercial use

    Meta released Llama 2 on 18 July 2023 at 7, 13 and 70 billion parameters, with the weights and code free for research and for most commercial use. Microsoft was named Meta’s preferred partner, and the models were distributed through Azure, Amazon Web Services and Hugging Face.

Releases

Date Release Maker Kind What it was
2025
Llama 4 Scout and Maverick Meta open-weights Multimodal open-weight models. A third model, Behemoth, remained in training.
2024
Llama 3.1 (8B, 70B, 405B) Meta open-weights 405B was the largest openly downloadable frontier-scale model to date.
Llama 3 (8B, 70B) Meta open-weights Openly downloadable weights under Meta’s community license.
2023
Llama 2 Meta open-weights 7B, 13B and 70B, free for research and for most commercial use.
LLaMA Meta model 7B-65B research-only models; the weights leaked publicly on 3 March 2023.