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.

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 source/open weight
yes

Verification & Sources

Status
Verified
Source links
2
Freshness
Verified June 8, 2026
Last verified
June 8, 2026
Last updated
June 7, 2026

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Kingy Scores

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Demo Quality
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YouTube Potential
Unscored

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.