# NousResearch/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

This model is a pretrained and instruction tuned multilingual text model with text in and text out behavior. It supports English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, and Thai, and it is described as covering multilingual text and code.

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## Facts

- Type: LLM
- Task: text-generation
- Framework: transformers
- License: llama3.1: Commercial use is permitted with obligations: Llama community license: commercial use allowed; if your products/services exceeded 700 million monthly active users (Section 2, Additional Commercial Terms) you must request a license from Meta first; the acceptable-use policy and attribution notice apply. (https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct/blob/main/LICENSE)
- Source: https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
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- Full repo upstream: 32.1 GB
- Recommended file: 32.1 GB (5 files)
- Parameters: 8B
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- Downloadable: yes
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- Downloads: 333546
- Stars: 40
- Card completeness: 92%

## Description

This model is a pretrained and instruction tuned multilingual text model with text in and text out behavior. It supports English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, and Thai, and it is described as covering multilingual text and code.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: llama3.1
- Pipeline: text-generation
- Library: transformers
- Task categories: text-generation
- Languages: en, de, fr, it, pt, hi, es, th
- Paper ids: 2204.05149
- File hints: 16 upstream file samples

## Referenced Data

- Paper: 2204.05149

## File Hints

- .gitattributes (1.5 KB)
- LICENSE (7.4 KB)
- README.md (41 KB)
- USE_POLICY.md (4.6 KB)
- config.json (855 B)
- generation_config.json (184 B)
- model-00001-of-00004.safetensors (4.6 GB) LFS
- model-00002-of-00004.safetensors (4.7 GB) LFS
- model-00003-of-00004.safetensors (4.6 GB) LFS
- model-00004-of-00004.safetensors (1.1 GB) LFS
- model.safetensors.index.json (23 KB)
- original/consolidated.00.pth (15 GB) LFS

## Quality Checklist

- Summary: passed
- Description: passed
- Model card metadata: passed
- License: review
- Provenance: passed
- File inventory: passed
- Hosted bytes: passed
- Scan result: passed
- Manifest signature: passed

## Safety Notes

- External catalog metadata imported from Hugging Face public API on 2026-09-18T05:52:42.448Z.
- Upstream license: llama3.1. Mirror admission policy: permissive (owner policy; no license rights inferred).
- Not a run kit: hosted, hash-checked bytes only; run readiness is not certified for this model yet.

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