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Llama 3.3 70B
ActiveUpdated 70B matching Llama 3.1 405B quality at a fraction of the cost; community-recommended default for text-only tasks.
About this version
Llama 3.3 70B is an active, balanced‑tier model from Meta released in December 2024 with a knowledge cutoff of October 2024 and a 128 000‑token context window. It is positioned as a cost‑effective alternative that delivers text‑only performance comparable to the higher‑parameter Llama 3.1 405B, and it is recommended by the community as the default choice for such tasks.
- API string
- meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
- Context window
- 128K ctx
- Knowledge cutoff
- Oct 1, 2024
- Tier
- Balanced
- Released
- Dec 1, 2024
Release & change timeline
1 event- Release
Llama 3.3 70B released
Matched Llama 3.1 405B quality at 70B scale; knowledge cutoff October 2024. Month known, exact day not stated.
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