Verified AI Launch Profile
Introducing Meta Llama 3
Meta released Llama 3 with 8B and 70B pretrained and instruction-tuned language models, plus safety tools for developers.
At a glance
Launch Snapshot
- Company
- Meta
- Launch date
- April 18, 2024
- Launch type
- Open-Source Release
- Category
- AI Open-Weight Models
- Audience
- Developers, Enterprises, Researchers
- Pricing
- Model weights were made broadly available; usage costs depend on hosting, inference provider, or cloud platform.
- Free plan
- Yes
- API
- Yes
- Open weights/source
- Yes
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Verification & Sources
- Status
- Verified
- Source links
- 2
- Freshness
- Verified June 8, 2026
- Last verified
- June 8, 2026
- Last updated
- June 11, 2026
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Kingy Scores
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- Launch Score
- 8.5 / 10
- Demo Quality
- 3.0 / 10
- YouTube Potential
- Medium
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Kingy AI Take
Foundational open-weight record because Llama 3 became a default option for developers wanting capable deployable models.
Who it is for
Developers, researchers, enterprises, model hosts, and builders using open-weight language models.
What feels promising
Strong 8B and 70B models, wide partner distribution, and open ecosystem momentum.
What feels unproven
The initial release did not include the larger multimodal and long-context capabilities promised for later.
Traction notes
A major open-weight model release that expanded the Llama ecosystem across cloud providers and local tooling.
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