Using Llama 3 8B on Fireworks AI

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at Fireworks AI and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the Fireworks AI SDK or REST API to call llama3-8b — see the documentation for request format.
3. 3
   You'll be billed $0.20/1M input, $0.20/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

import os
from openai import OpenAI

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

About Fireworks AI

The Fireworks AI Platform is a comprehensive generative AI solution that enables developers and businesses to build, customize, and deploy AI models at scale. It supports a diverse range of cutting-edge open-source models, including Meta's Llama and Stable Diffusion, for tasks such as natural language processing and image generation. The platform's serverless architecture allows for quick deployment without extensive infrastructure management, operating on a pay-as-you-go basis. Users can fine-tune models using parameter-efficient techniques, ensuring tailored AI solutions that maintain high performance for specific business needs. Optimized for high throughput and low latency, the platform can handle trillions of inferences daily while providing a seamless user experience. It offers tools for efficient model maintenance and iteration, allowing businesses to focus on innovation rather than complex AI model management. The platform's design facilitates easy integration and customization, enabling organizations to effectively scale their AI-powered solutions. With its cost-efficient approach and comprehensive features, the Fireworks AI Platform empowers businesses to leverage advanced AI capabilities for enhanced productivity and competitive advantage in their respective markets.

Fireworks AI offers a generative AI platform as a service, focusing on rapid product iteration and cost-efficient AI deployment. Their platform is designed to optimize the development and serving of generative AI applications, enabling businesses to quickly build and scale AI-powered solutions. Fireworks.ai emphasizes minimizing the cost to serve while maximizing the potential of generative AI technologies, making advanced AI capabilities more accessible and practical for a wide range of applications.

Pricing on Fireworks AI

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

About Llama 3 8B

The Llama 3 8B model, released on April 18, 2024, is Meta's latest large language model featuring 8 billion parameters. It's an auto-regressive transformer optimized for text generation and dialogue applications, particularly suited for assistant-like interactions. Trained on over 15 trillion tokens from diverse public sources, it incorporates advanced techniques like supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF). This model is designed to outperform many existing open-source chat models on industry benchmarks, emphasizing helpfulness and safety in its outputs. It's available for commercial and research use in English through the Hugging Face platform .