Meta releases Llama 3.3 70B

Released Llama 3.3 70B — a text-only 70B model with 128K context, pretrained on about 15T tokens, supporting 8 languages, under the Llama 3.3 Community License

Why it matters

An update to the Llama 3 line that shipped a single 70B instruction-tuned model, with no separate pretrained release

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Officialhuggingface.cohttps://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

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