Using Llama 3.1 70B Instruct on NVIDIA NIM
Implementation guide · Llama 3.1 · AI at Meta
Quick Start
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- 2Use the NVIDIA NIM SDK or REST API to call
llama3.1-70b-instruct— see the documentation for request format. - 3
Code Examples
About NVIDIA NIM
NIM packages inference runtimes and model profiles into containers that expose standard API surfaces such as chat completions, completions, model listing, tokenization, health, and management endpoints. The hosted API path is useful for prototyping and catalog discovery, while the NGC/container path is the self-hosted route for teams that want GPU-hour infrastructure control, private-network deployment, Kubernetes scaling, or NVIDIA AI Enterprise support. Per-token pricing is not a universal provider-level claim in the current seed data; pricing should stay attached to sourced model-provider rows or NVIDIA's current catalog terms.
NVIDIA NIM is NVIDIA's deployment platform for GPU-accelerated inference microservices. Developers can try hosted NIM APIs through the NVIDIA API Catalog on build.nvidia.com, then move the same model families into self-hosted NIM containers on NVIDIA GPUs in a data center, private cloud, public cloud, or workstation. The catalog positions NIM around optimized open and NVIDIA models, including chat, coding, reasoning, retrieval, vision, speech, and safety use cases, with downloadable model cards and API endpoints where NVIDIA exposes them.
Pricing on NVIDIA NIM
| Type | Rate |
|---|---|
| GPU Hour Rate | $1.00/GPU·hr |
| GPU Config | 4xH100 |
Capabilities
About Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
The Llama 3.1 70B Instruct model is a cutting-edge large language model with 70 billion parameters, designed for instruction-following tasks. It features multilingual capabilities, supporting languages like English, German, French, and others. Fine-tuned using supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF), it excels in understanding and responding to user instructions. The model can handle a context length of up to 128k tokens, making it suitable for complex dialogue systems and applications requiring detailed responses. It outperforms many existing open-source and proprietary models on various industry benchmarks, making it ideal for conversational AI, content generation, and data synthesis tasks. For more details, visit the Hugging Face page [1].