Artificial Intelligence
Llama 3.1 405B: When Open Catches Up With Closed Top-Tier
Meta released Llama 3.1 405B on July 23, 2024: 405 billion parameters, 128k token context, and benchmarks matching GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Self-hosting needs about 220 GB of VRAM in Q4; Together.ai, Fireworks, and Groq offer per-token access.