# Hugging Face — Welcome Llama 3 - Meta's new open LLM

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-04-18T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: Platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Meta-Llama-3-8b, Meta-Llama-3-8b-instruct, Meta-Llama-3-70b, Meta-Llama-3-70b-instruct, Llama Guard 2
- License: Llama 3 license
- Context window: 8K tokens
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/llama3
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1904-welcome-llama-3-meta-s-new-open-llm

Hugging Face announces the release of Meta's Llama 3 open LLM family, including 8B and 70B parameter models (base and instruct variants) and Llama Guard 2, with integrations into the Hugging Face ecosystem.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/llama3:

> Meta’s Llama 3, the next iteration of the open-access Llama family, is now released and available at Hugging Face.

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