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Llama 3.3 8B Instruct

Meta (USA) December 29 2025

Parameters

8B (dense)

License

Llama 3.3 Community License

Key Features

The "lost" Llama 3.3 8B extracted from Meta's Llama API via finetuning workaround; model existed behind API since April 2025 but weights never officially released; extracted by downloading finetuned model and subtracting adapter to recover base; significant improvements over Llama 3.1 8B: 81.95% IFEval (vs 78.2%), 37.0% GPQA Diamond (vs 29.3%); 8K context (API version has 128K); metadata shows Llama 3 as base but behaves distinctly from 3.1; stylistic differences and knowledge updates confirm it's genuine 3.3; legally redistributable per Meta's own ToS which states downloaded models fall under Llama 3.3 Community License; community reverse-engineered through buggy/hidden finetuning UI that appeared in December; the model everyone expected after 3.3 70B dropped but Meta never released through normal channels; first community weights published by allura-forge on HuggingFace.

Paper / Source

https://huggingface.co/allura-forge/Llama-3.3-8B-Instruct