Open-weight family · Fast-moving · Intermediate
Llama (Meta)
Meta's open-weight language model family, the foundation of a large share of self-hosted and fine-tuned deployments.
What Llama (Meta) is
Llama releases publish downloadable weights under a community licence, which made high-quality self-hosting broadly available and seeded a huge ecosystem of derivatives.
How it works
Weights are distributed through model hubs and run locally or on rented GPUs, usually quantised, and adapted with LoRA or full fine-tuning. Licence terms include conditions worth reading before commercial deployment.
Why it matters
Llama is the reference point for open-weight capability and the base of countless domain-tuned models.
Common uses
- →On-premise deployments
- →Fine-tuned domain assistants
- →Research
- →Local and offline apps
Strengths
- ✓Downloadable weights
- ✓Enormous ecosystem
- ✓No per-token fee
Watch for
- ✓You operate the infrastructure
- ✓Licence conditions apply
- ✓Safety tuning removable by third parties
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