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Meta releases Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
The open-weight instruction-tuned model, fine-tuned from Llama 3.1 70B, scores 94.8% on GSM8K and 65.9% on MMLU-Pro.
Meta today released Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, an open-weight instruction-tuned model. The model, fine-tuned from Llama 3.1 70B, scores 94.8% on GSM8K and 65.9% on MMLU-Pro. The model logged 745,246 downloads on Hugging Face.
One year later — open only if you can handle spoilers
Llama 3.3 70B became a workhorse for the open-source community throughout early 2025, widely adopted for cost-sensitive deployments. Meta's troubled Llama 4 release the following spring, plagued by benchmark cherry-picking and rapid-fire retractions, only made Llama 3.3 look better in retrospect.