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Llama 3 70B Instruct on IBM watsonx

Llama 3 · AI at Meta

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Why use Llama 3 70B Instruct on IBM watsonx?

IBM watsonx offers Llama 3 70B Instruct with pay-as-you-go pricing at $1.80/1M input tokens. IBM offers a comprehensive AI platform that includes IBM watsonx, a next-generation enterprise AI and data platform.

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ProviderInput (per 1M)Output (per 1M)
GCP Vertex AI$1.20$3.60
AWS Bedrock$0.99$0.99
Microsoft Foundry$3.78$11.34
NVIDIA NIM
DeepInfra$0.45$0.65
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Input tokens$1.80
Output tokens$1.80

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About Llama 3 70B Instruct

The Llama 3 70B Instruct model is a large language model with 70 billion parameters, released by Meta on April 18, 2024. It's an instruction-tuned variant optimized for conversational applications, utilizing an advanced auto-regressive transformer architecture. The model excels in following instructions and engaging in dialogue, having been trained on over 15 trillion tokens with a December 2023 knowledge cutoff. It demonstrates superior performance on industry benchmarks, scoring 82.0 on the MMLU (5-shot) test. The model incorporates extensive safety measures and optimizations, including RLHF, to enhance helpfulness and reduce harmful content generation. For more details, visit the model's Hugging Face page [1].

FAQ

What does Llama 3 70B Instruct cost on IBM watsonx?

On IBM watsonx, Llama 3 70B Instruct costs $1.8 per 1M input tokens and $1.8 per 1M output tokens.

What is the context window for Llama 3 70B Instruct on IBM watsonx?

Llama 3 70B Instruct supports a 8,000 token context window on IBM watsonx.

How does IBM watsonx compare to other Llama 3 70B Instruct providers?

Llama 3 70B Instruct is available from 17 providers. The cheapest input pricing is $0.40/1M tokens from Hyperbolic AI Inference.

Who created Llama 3 70B Instruct?

Llama 3 70B Instruct was created by AI at Meta as part of the Llama 3 model family.

Is Llama 3 70B Instruct open source?

Llama 3 70B Instruct is open source according to the seed data.

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