Using Llama 3 8B Instruct on DeepInfra

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at DeepInfra and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the DeepInfra SDK or REST API to call llama3-8b-instruct — see the documentation for request format.
3. 3
   You'll be billed $0.05/1M input, $0.15/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["DEEPINFRA_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://api.deepinfra.com/v1/openai"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="llama3-8b-instruct",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

About DeepInfra

DeepInfra offers serverless AI inference with a simple API, supporting hundreds of models across text generation, embeddings, and more. Pay-per-token pricing with no upfront commitments.

DeepInfra is a cloud inference platform offering cost-effective access to open-source AI models. It provides serverless inference for leading models from Meta, Mistral, Alibaba, and others with competitive token-based pricing.

Pricing on DeepInfra

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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].