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Llama 3.1 405B Instruct on NVIDIA NIM

Llama 3.1 · AI at Meta

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Why use Llama 3.1 405B Instruct on NVIDIA NIM?

NVIDIA NIM offers Llama 3.1 405B Instruct with competitive pricing. NVIDIA NIM is NVIDIA's deployment platform for GPU-accelerated inference microservices.

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Fireworks AI$3.00$3.00
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GPU Hour Rate$1.00/GPU·hr
GPU Config8xH100

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About Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct is Meta's advanced large language model released on July 23, 2024, featuring 405 billion parameters. It utilizes an optimized transformer architecture with supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for enhanced instruction-following capabilities. The model supports multiple languages, was trained on 15 trillion tokens, and fine-tuned with 25 million synthetic examples. It excels in multilingual dialogue and text generation, making it ideal for assistant-like applications. Llama 3.1 incorporates robust safety measures and ethical considerations, outperforming many existing models on various industry benchmarks. AI engineers can access the model via its Hugging Face page for implementation in diverse NLP tasks.

FAQ

What is the context window for Llama 3.1 405B Instruct on NVIDIA NIM?

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct supports a 128,000 token context window on NVIDIA NIM.

How does NVIDIA NIM compare to other Llama 3.1 405B Instruct providers?

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct is available from 11 providers. The cheapest input pricing is $2.40/1M tokens from AWS Bedrock.

Who created Llama 3.1 405B Instruct?

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct was created by AI at Meta as part of the Llama 3.1 model family.

Is Llama 3.1 405B Instruct open source?

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct is open source according to the seed data.

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