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Meta’s Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is an instruction-tuned text-generation model in the Llama 3.1 family, listed on Hugging Face and documented by Meta’s official llama-models repository.
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct is the 8B instruction-tuned model from Meta’s Llama 3.1 release. Meta’s launch post describes Llama 3.1 as introducing upgraded 8B and 70B models with multilingual support, 128K context length, and stronger reasoning, with availability via llama.meta.com and Hugging Face. The official meta-llama/llama-models README lists the Llama 3.1 release date as 7/23/2024, model sizes of 8B, 70B, and 405B, a 128K context length, and links to the use policy, license, and model card.
Use when you need an instruction-tuned Llama 3.1 model for text-generation workflows. Use when a smaller 8B model is preferred within the Llama 3.1 family while still requiring the release’s documented 128K context length and multilingual support. Use when you want a model available through Hugging Face and Meta’s Llama distribution channels.
Last updated Jun 4, 2026
