Llama 3 8B Instruct on Databricks Foundation Model Serving
Llama 3 · AI at Meta
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Why use Llama 3 8B Instruct on Databricks Foundation Model Serving?
Databricks Foundation Model Serving offers Llama 3 8B Instruct with competitive pricing. Databricks offers a comprehensive Data Intelligence Platform that unifies data, analytics, and AI capabilities.
Compare Llama 3 8B Instruct across 16 providers to find the best fit for your use caseSetup recipe
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Compare Llama 3 8B Instruct Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Bedrock | $0.30 | $0.60 |
| DeepInfra | $0.05 | $0.15 |
| OctoAI API (Deprecated) | $0.15 | $0.15 |
| Fireworks AI | $0.20 | $0.20 |
| Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS | — | — |
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About Llama 3 8B Instruct
The Llama 3 8B Instruct model, released on April 18, 2024, is Meta's latest instruction-following language model with 8 billion parameters. It utilizes an auto-regressive transformer architecture with Grouped-Query Attention for improved scalability. Trained on over 15 trillion tokens and fine-tuned with 10 million human-annotated examples, it excels in dialogue and conversational tasks. The model outperforms its predecessors on industry benchmarks, scoring 68.4 on MMLU (5-shot). Designed for commercial and research applications, it prioritizes safety and helpfulness, making it suitable for chatbots, virtual assistants, and other interactive AI applications. For more details, visit the Hugging Face page [1].
FAQ
What is the context window for Llama 3 8B Instruct on Databricks Foundation Model Serving?
Llama 3 8B Instruct supports a 8,000 token context window on Databricks Foundation Model Serving.
How does Databricks Foundation Model Serving compare to other Llama 3 8B Instruct providers?
Llama 3 8B Instruct is available from 16 providers. The cheapest input pricing is $0.03/1M tokens from OpenRouter.
Who created Llama 3 8B Instruct?
Llama 3 8B Instruct was created by AI at Meta as part of the Llama 3 model family.
Is Llama 3 8B Instruct open source?
Llama 3 8B Instruct is open source according to the seed data.