Using Llama 3 70B Instruct on IBM watsonx
Implementation guide · Llama 3 · AI at Meta
IBM watsonx exposes Llama 3 70B Instruct through model ID llama3-70b-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 IBM watsonx SDK or REST API to call
llama3-70b-instruct— see the documentation for request format. - 3
Code Examples
Pricing on IBM watsonx
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $1.80 |
| Output tokens | $1.80 |
Capabilities
About Llama 3 70B Instruct
The Llama 3 70B Instruct model is a large language model with 70 billion parameters, released by Meta on April 18, 2024. It's an instruction-tuned variant optimized for conversational applications, utilizing an advanced auto-regressive transformer architecture. The model excels in following instructions and engaging in dialogue, having been trained on over 15 trillion tokens with a December 2023 knowledge cutoff. It demonstrates superior performance on industry benchmarks, scoring 82.0 on the MMLU (5-shot) test. The model incorporates extensive safety measures and optimizations, including RLHF, to enhance helpfulness and reduce harmful content generation.