Llama (Meta)
AdvancedMeta open-source large language model family for research and commercial use.
Company
Meta AI
Founded
2023
Headquarters
Menlo Park, CA
Pricing Range
Free / open-source
Difficulty
advanced
Target Audience
AI developers and researchers who need powerful open-source LLMs for custom applications.
About
Llama is Meta family of open-source large language models (Llama 2, Llama 3, Llama 4). They offer strong performance across reasoning, coding, and creative tasks. Available in multiple sizes (8B to 405B parameters). Permissive license allows commercial use. Widely used in the open-source AI community.
Advantages
- 1Open-source
- 2Strong performance
- 3Multiple sizes
- 4Commercial friendly
- 5Active community
Pros & Cons
Pros
- +Powerful open-source
- +Commercial friendly
- +Multiple sizes
- +Strong community
Cons
- −Large resource needs
- −No hosted API
- −Setup complexity
- −Rapidly evolving
Use Cases
LLM applications
Research
Private deployment
Custom models
Fine-tuning
Pricing
Free
$0
- All models
- Open weights
- Commercial
Extensions & Plugins
Llama GitHub
Open source repo
Llama Website
Official site
Skills
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