Using Llama 3.1 8B Instruct on Databricks Foundation Model Serving
Implementation guide · Llama 3.1 · AI at Meta
Databricks Foundation Model Serving exposes Llama 3.1 8B Instruct through model ID llama3.1-8b-instruct. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.
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Quick Start
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- 2Use the Databricks Foundation Model Serving SDK or REST API to call
llama3.1-8b-instruct— see the documentation for request format.
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About Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
The Llama 3.1 8B Instruct model, released on July 23, 2024, is a multilingual large language model with 8 billion parameters, optimized for instruction-following tasks. It features an enhanced transformer architecture, supporting languages like English, German, French, and others. The model excels in dialogue applications, having been fine-tuned using supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with human feedback. Trained on approximately 15 trillion tokens with a December 2023 data cutoff, it outperforms many existing open-source and closed chat models in various benchmarks.