AI Launch Profile
Introducing Llama 3.1
Meta launched Llama 3.1 including the 405B open-weight frontier model, upgraded 8B and 70B models, 128K context, multilingual support, and tool use.
At a glance
Launch Snapshot
- Company
- Meta
- Launch date
- July 23, 2024
- Launch type
- Open-Source Release
- Category
- AI Open-Weight Models
- Audience
- Developers, Enterprises, Researchers
- Pricing
- Weights available for download and partner platforms; costs depend on self-hosting or inference provider pricing.
- Free plan
- Yes
- API
- Yes
- Open weights/source
- Yes
Launch Context
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Verification & Sources
- Status
- Verified
- Source links
- 2
- Freshness
- Needs recheck: verified June 8, 2026
- Last verified
- June 8, 2026
- Last updated
- June 11, 2026
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Kingy Launch Score
7.3 / 10 · Solid
One earned credibility score, computed from cited evidence — not a placeholder. How the Kingy Launch Score works
Why this score
- Source & verification 7.0/10 — The Meta announcement plus the Hugging Face model org — two first-party sources. ai.meta.com
- Product evidence 8.0/10 — An open-weight release — the 405B model plus upgraded 8B and 70B, 128K context, multilingual support, and tool use — distributed for download and via partners. huggingface.co
- Significance & novelty 7.5/10 — The record frames it as a landmark open-weight release, the 405B model bringing frontier-class open-model claims into production discussion. ai.meta.com
- Traction signals not scored — insufficient sourced evidence
- Offer clarity 6.5/10 — Weights are available for download and on partner platforms; cost depends on self-hosting or an inference provider. ai.meta.com
Evidence checked 2026-07-11
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Kingy AI Take
Meta launched Llama 3.1, including the 405B open-weight model alongside upgraded 8B and 70B models, 128K context, multilingual support, and tool use (ai.meta.com). Developers, Enterprises, and Researchers building on open weights got what the record frames as a serious open alternative to closed frontier models. This is a 2024 release, and large-model hosting cost plus license constraints shape who can practically run the full model, so weigh those before adopting it.
Who it is for
Developers and organizations building open-weight AI applications, synthetic data pipelines, model distillation workflows, and agents.
Traction notes
A landmark open-weight release because the 405B model brought frontier-class open model claims into production discussion.
Source-backed record