5 Websites To Try Llama 3.1 For FREE

Meta's biggest open-source AI model, Llama 3.1, beats the best closed-source language models like GPT-4o, Gemma 2, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on selected benchmarks.

It’s only been 48 hours since Meta dropped Llama 3.1, which beats the best closed-source language models like GPT-4o, Gemma 2, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on selected benchmarks.

The Llama 3.1 family includes multilingual models supporting French, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Thai, with parameter sizes of 8 billion, 70 billion, and a whopping 405 billion. The 405B model, trained using over 16,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, boasts a context window of up to 128K tokens.

However, as I’ve mentioned before, benchmarks don’t always reflect real-world performance. So, let me show you five free ways to experience Llama 3.1 for yourself.

Let’s get started.

1. Groq

Groq, known for its specialized hardware and software designed to accelerate AI inference workloads, now hosts Llama 3.1 in the Groq Playground.

Image by Jim Clyde Monge

You may notice that the 405B parameter model is not currently available in the playground; you can try it on Groq Chat.

Image by Jim Clyde Monge

One thing I really love about Groq is that it’s really fast. Their LPU (Learning Processing Unit) can achieve industry-leading inference speeds, such as 250 tokens per second on the 70B parameter model and over 1,200 tokens per second on the 8B model.

2. HuggingChat

HuggingChat is an open-source AI chatbot developed by Hugging Face, a popular platform where users can host generative AI models. To get started, visit Hugging Chat and create a free account.

Under the settings page, activate the meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1–405B-Instruct-FP8 model. Once you close the modal window, you can start interacting with the model.

Image by Jim Clyde Monge

HuggingChat also offers additional tools that enhance its capabilities, such as web search and PDF support. For example, I enabled the image generation tool and tested it with the following prompt: