2024 CE
Llama 3: distributing model weights
Artificial intelligence · Machine learning
Meta introduced Llama 3 and distributed language-model weights under its own license. This enabled third-party adaptation and deployment; available weights do not imply unrestricted use or full access to training data.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-20
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Sources
- ai.meta.com (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2024-04-18
- What this date describes
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- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
- Access date
- 2026-09-20
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