---
license: llama3
---

Quantized Llama 3 8B Instruct to Q40 format supported by [Distributed Llama](https://github.com/b4rtaz/distributed-llama).

## License

Before download this repository please accept [Llama 3 Community License](https://llama.meta.com/llama3/license/).

## How to run

1. Clone this repository.
2. Clone Distributed Llama:
```sh
git clone https://github.com/b4rtaz/distributed-llama.git
```
3. Build Distributed Llama:
```sh
make main
```
4. Run Distributed Llama:
```
./main inference --prompt "Hello world" --steps 128 --weights-float-type q40 --buffer-float-type q80 --nthreads 4 --model path/to/dllama_meta-llama-3-8b_q40.bin --tokenizer path/to/dllama_meta-llama3-tokenizer.t
```

### Chat Template

Please keep in mind this model expects the prompt to use the chat template of llama 3.