The Llama 3 8B model, released on April 18, 2024, is Meta's latest large language model featuring 8 billion parameters. It's an auto-regressive transformer optimized for text generation and dialogue applications, particularly suited for assistant-like interactions. Trained on over 15 trillion tokens from diverse public sources, it incorporates advanced techniques like supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF). This model is designed to outperform many existing open-source chat models on industry benchmarks, emphasizing helpfulness and safety in its outputs. It's available for commercial and research use in English through the Hugging Face platform .