Llama 3.1 70B

Llama 3.1 70B is a foundational large language model released by Meta on July 23, 2024, under the LLAMA 3.1 COMMUNITY LICENSE AGREEMENT. The official Meta Hugging Face repository describes Llama 3.1 as encompassing machine-learning model code, trained model weights, inference-enabling code, training-enabling code, and fine-tuning-enabling code, all distributed as the broader model family. Access to the model weights on that repository is gated behind a contact-information agreement governed by Meta's Privacy Policy, reflecting Meta's controlled rollout of the open-weight assets. Documentation accompanying the release is hosted at the Meta developer portal, making the Hugging Face page the canonical distribution point for the foundational weights and license terms.

As an open-weights, text-only 70-billion parameter member of the Llama 3.1 family, the model is positioned for a broad range of language understanding and generation workloads, including chat, reasoning, and tool-augmented workflows. Independent third-party leaderboards place the instruct variant in mid-tier rankings across categories such as tool calling and chat, giving practitioners a qualitative sense of where the model sits relative to newer alternatives, and its release under a community license makes it suitable for self-hosted experimentation, fine-tuning, and integration into private pipelines where open weights are preferred.