llama-3.1-8b-instruct Model by Meta

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Advanced state-of-the-art model with language understanding, superior reasoning, and text generation.

Chat

Language Generation

Text-to-Text

Code Generation

API Reference

By running the below commands, you accept the NVIDIA AI Enterprise Terms of Use and the NVIDIA Community Models License.

Pull and run meta/llama-3_1-8b-instruct using Docker (this will download the full model and run it in your local environment)


$ docker login nvcr.io
Username: $oauthtoken
Password: <PASTE_API_KEY_HERE>

Pull and run the NVIDIA NIM with the command below. This will download the optimized model for your infrastructure.


export NGC_API_KEY=<PASTE_API_KEY_HERE>
export LOCAL_NIM_CACHE=~/.cache/nim
mkdir -p "$LOCAL_NIM_CACHE"
docker run -it --rm \
    --gpus all \
    --shm-size=16GB \
    -e NGC_API_KEY \
    -v "$LOCAL_NIM_CACHE:/opt/nim/.cache" \
    -u $(id -u) \
    -p 8000:8000 \
    nvcr.io/nim/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct:latest

You can now make a local API call using this curl command:


curl -X 'POST' \
'http://0.0.0.0:8000/v1/chat/completions' \
-H 'accept: application/json' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
    "model": "meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct",
    "messages": [{"role":"user", "content":"Write a limerick about the wonders of GPU computing."}],
    "max_tokens": 64
}'

For more details on getting started with this NIM, visit the NVIDIA NIM Docs.