Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct - Instruction-tuned multilingual text model

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is Meta’s instruction-tuned text-only model for multilingual dialogue use cases. It is part of the Llama 3.1 family and is documented with a 128K context window and text-generation focus.

Defining Characteristics

• Instruction-tuned text model for multilingual dialogue use cases.
• 128K context window in Meta’s documentation and major official hosting docs.
• Open model release within the Llama 3.1 family, with official model cards and prompt-format guidance.

Tool Use

• Meta’s developer docs note that Llama 8B-Instruct can be used for zero-shot tool calling, though it cannot reliably maintain a conversation alongside tool-calling definitions.

Deployment

• Official cloud/provider docs expose the model through standard chat-completions style APIs.
• Some provider docs list text input and text output only, reflecting its text-only deployment.