meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B
meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B is a meta-llama record on this register. The Hugging Face model API lists the pipeline tag as text-generation. The safetensors index gives an exact parameter count of 8,030,261,248. The listed licence is llama3.1. The Hub repository was created on 14 Jul 2024, which is the release date this register uses.
Primary source: the Hugging Face model card for meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B. Fields below come from that card, the Hub model API, and the repository’s own config.json when those files exist. A field we cannot source is omitted rather than guessed.
| Organisation | meta-llama |
|---|---|
| ReleasedRepo creation date on Hugging Face | 14 Jul 2024 |
| Last modified | 16 Oct 2024 |
| ParametersExact, from the safetensors index | 8.0B 8,030,261,248 |
| Licence | llama3.1 |
| Pipeline / taskpipeline_tag on the Hugging Face model API | text-generation |
| File formats | safetensors |
| Librarylibrary_name on the Hugging Face model API | transformers |
| DownloadsAt last check | 652.1k |
| Likes | 2.7k |
| Gated | Yes |
No context length is shown because max_position_embeddings was not readable from config.json.
How to run
Safetensors weights are on the Hugging Face repository. The parameter count on this page came from that index.
The Hugging Face model API lists the library as transformers.
Load it from huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B. This page does not add install steps that the Hub files do not state.
Agent capabilities
This model publishes no chat template, so there is nothing to inspect. That is not evidence of missing support — many base models and some releases simply ship without one.
Questions this record can answer
- When was Llama-3.1-8B released?
- The Hugging Face repository was created on 14 Jul 2024, which is the date this register uses.
- How many parameters does Llama-3.1-8B have?
- The safetensors index gives 8,030,261,248 parameters, shown here as 8.0B. That figure is exact, not rounded.
- What licence is Llama-3.1-8B under?
- The Hub card lists llama3.1.
- Is Llama-3.1-8B gated?
- Yes. The Hugging Face model API marks this repository as gated.
Where each field came from
- Hugging Face model API — releasedAt, lastModified, downloads, likes, task, license, gated, parameters, libraryName, formats. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
First recorded 24 Sept 2026, last checked 18 Oct 2026. This record is compiled automatically from the sources above. Where a field is blank, we could not source it and have not guessed. Canonical repository: huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B.