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Llama 2

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LLMsopen-weightWorkstation

Overview

First commercially licensed open LLM. Made open-weight models viable for business use and kickstarted the open-source LLM ecosystem.

Capabilities and innovations

7B / 13B / 70B parametersCommercial license4K context windowChat-tuned variants (Llama 2-Chat)Grouped-Query Attention (GQA) in 70BGhost Attention (GAtt) for multi-turnRLHF with rejection sampling

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreSource
MMLU68.9%unsourced

Architecture and hardware

Parameters
70B total (Dense)
Estimated VRAM at Q4
~41 GB, Workstation class
Quantization formats
GGUF, GPTQ, AWQ
Recommended runtime
Ollama
License
Llama 2 Community License

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