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Last updated: May 10, 2025
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Overview
LLaMA V3.2 is Meta's latest large language model, offering high accuracy, open access, and scalable multi-modal capabilities.
Key Features
✦ Open Source: LLaMA models are freely available to researchers and developers.
✦ High Performance: Strong benchmarks on reasoning, summarization, and translation tasks.
✦ Multi-Modal Support: Supports vision + language tasks (in select implementations).
✦ Efficient Scaling: Optimized for training across a variety of hardware setups.
✦ Extended Context Length: Enhanced support for long input sequences.
✦ Security-First Design: Trained with safety in mind, reducing toxic outputs.
Advantages
🟩 Transparent & Open: Available under a research license, encouraging innovation and collaboration.
🟩 Research-Grade Performance: On par with top commercial models.
🟩 Strong Ecosystem: Growing support in HuggingFace and open-source tools.
🟩 Cost-Efficient Deployment: Can be run on local hardware or adapted for custom needs.
Limitations
🟥 Research License Only: Limited commercial usage without approval.
🟥 No Official Hosted API: Requires technical setup for usage.
🟥 Model Complexity: Needs advanced hardware for training or inference.
🟥 Limited Guardrails: Developers must implement content moderation.
Use Cases
➤ Academic Research: Explore LLM behaviors, fairness, and performance.
➤ Custom AI Apps: Power AI copilots or chatbots using open infrastructure.
➤ Translation Engines: Build multilingual content platforms.
➤ Educational Tools: Use the model to train and fine-tune student AI experiments.
Pricing Details
⭘ Free: Released under a research license for non-commercial use.
⭘ Custom Commercial License: Available by request for enterprise partners.
Summary
LLaMA V3.2 by Meta brings cutting-edge large language modeling to the open-source world. Ideal for researchers and developers, it combines high performance with flexibility and transparency. From academic experimentation to real-world application building, LLaMA gives users full control over their AI stack.
Released Dates
2025
April 29 – At LlamaCon, Meta announced the Llama API in limited preview (featuring Llama 4 Scout & Maverick models), new Llama Protection Tools (Llama Guard 4, LlamaFirewall, Llama Prompt Guard 2), CyberSecEval 4 updates, the Llama Defenders Program, and collaborations for faster inference via the Llama API.
April 5 – Meta released the Llama 4 model family (including 109B, 400B, and 2T parameter versions).
2024
December 7 – Meta released the Llama 3.3 (70B parameter) model.
September 25 – Meta released the Llama 3.2 model family (1B, 3B, 11B, 90B parameters).
July 23 – Meta released the Llama 3.1 model family (8B, 70B, and a new 405B parameter model).
April 18 – Meta released the Llama 3 model family (8B and 70B parameter versions).
2023
August 24 – Meta released Code Llama, a version of Llama 2 specialized for code generation.
July 18 – Meta released the Llama 2 model family, available for free for research and commercial use.
February 24 – Meta announced Llama, its foundational large language model family.
