Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16 is a 8 billion parameter chat model from context-labs, released January 9, 2025. Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16 is an open-weights chat model with roughly 8 billion parameters.
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Ways to use Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16 in osFoundry
Connect with your own key (BYOK)
Open the key dialog and paste your context-labs API key. osFoundry discovers Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16 automatically — assign it to a Maestro role (router, direct, orchestrator, or fallback) in the Pipeline tab and it is live in every chat. Your key, your provider account — no token markup.
Deploy a dedicated endpoint
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16 is open-weights — run it locally for free, or deploy a dedicated GPU endpoint in your workspace for reserved capacity with no rate limits.
Use it in a Room App
Room Apps declare AI features in their manifest, then call them with invokeAI:
import { invokeAI } from '@osfoundry/app-sdk'
// 'summarize' is an AI feature declared in your app manifest.
const result = await invokeAI('summarize', userText)
Call it from your own apps
Once a model is wired into your workspace you can host it as an API and reach it from your own services, scripts, or CI — outside osFoundry.
What hardware can run Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16 runs on a single 16GB consumer GPU (~5 GB VRAM with KV-cache headroom). Full-precision inference fits on a single H100 80GB at FP16 precision (~20 GB).
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16 vs similar models
Licence
Unspecified — Licence terms not specified — verify the upstream model card before commercial use.
Check upstream documentation.
Frequently asked about Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16
Is Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16 free to use?
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16 is free to run locally on your own hardware. Hosted access through osFoundry is metered (input Free (local), output Free (local)). You can switch between local and hosted at any time.
Can I use Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16 commercially?
Commercial use is allowed with conditions. Licence terms not specified — verify the upstream model card before commercial use. Check upstream documentation.
How much VRAM does Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16 need?
Approximately 5 GB at Q4 quantisation, or 20 GB at full FP16 precision. Fits on a single 24GB consumer GPU.
Can I run Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16 locally?
Yes. Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16 is open-weights and runs locally on a workstation GPU. osFoundry's local runtime handles model loading, quantisation, and routing.
What is Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16 best at?
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16 is well-suited to text generation.
How do I use Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16 in osFoundry?
Paste your context-labs API key in the key dialog (or deploy the open weights for self-hostable models), assign Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16 to a Maestro role in the Pipeline tab, then use it in chat, Room Apps via invokeAI, or your own apps.
Published by context-labs on January 9, 2025. Source: https://huggingface.co/context-labs/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP16