Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Version: 6
MetaLast updated February 2026
The Llama 3.1 instruction tuned text only models are optimized for multilingual dialogue use cases and outperform many of the available open source and closed chat models on common industry benchmarks.
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Models from Microsoft, Partners, and Community

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Responsible AI considerations

Safety techniques

As part of our Responsible release approach, we followed a three-pronged strategy to managing trust & safety risks: ● Enable developers to deploy helpful, safe and flexible experiences for their target audience and for the use cases supported by Llama. ● Protect developers against adversarial users aiming to exploit Llama capabilities to potentially cause harm. ● Provide protections for the community to help prevent the misuse of our models. Llama is a foundational technology designed to be used in a variety of use cases, examples on how Meta's Llama models have been responsibly deployed can be found in our Community Stories webpage . Our approach is to build the most helpful models enabling the world to benefit from the technology power, by aligning our model safety for the generic use cases addressing a standard set of harms. Developers are then in the driver seat to tailor safety fo

Quality and performance evaluations

Source: Meta In this section, we report the results for Llama 3.1 models on standard automatic benchmarks. For all the evaluations, we use our internal evaluations library.

Base pretrained models

Category Benchmark # Shots Metric Llama 3 8B Llama 3.1 8B Llama 3 70B Llama 3.1 70B L
Model Specifications
Context Length131072
LicenseCustom
Training DataDecember 2023
Last UpdatedFebruary 2026
Input TypeText
Output TypeText
ProviderMeta
Languages8 Languages