USOrigin: USOpen weights
Llama (Meta)
Meta’s open-weight family—the one everyone fine-tunes in blog posts.
Best for
Local experiments and following open-source LLM tutorials.
Tip for students
Always record which Llama version and size (e.g. 8B vs 70B)—results are not interchangeable.
Also in this category
- Ai2 Embodied AIAi2 research on robots, 3D reasoning, and simulation.
- Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Seattle’s open-AI institute—models, science agents, and planetary tools.
- AstaBench (Ai2)Open benchmarks for scientific AI agents—measure before you trust.
- Hugging FaceThe town square for models, datasets, and demos.
Comparisons
What it is
Llama is a defining open-weight line. You don’t ‘install Llama’ like an app—you pick a size/quant and run it through a runner (Ollama, etc.) under Meta’s license terms. Perfect for learning local AI culture.
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