How to download Meta Llama 3 models

Emad Dehnavi
2 min readApr 26, 2024

Few days ago on April 18, 2024, meta announced that their models of the next generation of Llama, Meta Llama 3 are available for broad use.

How to download Meta Llama3 models

Here is what you need to do in order to download the models:

  • Go to the Official Meta Llama3 web page
  • Click on Download Models button
  • Here you need to request access to the models you need, you can request access to the following models:
    - Meta Llama 3
    - Meta Llama 2
    - Meta Code Llama
  • Once you fill the form, depends on how many models you requested, You need to accept the terms and conditions for each one, and then you will receive an email ( And also navigated to a page ) where you can get the information you need in order to download the models.
  • Clone the repository of the model you want to download, for example for Llama3 you can clone the repo from here: https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3

if you don’t have the wget and md5sum installed, you need them before downloading the models. if you’re using Mac, you can install them using brew:

brew install wget
brew install md5sha1sum
  • After cloning the repository, in your terminal and in the top-level directory where the download.sh file is there, you need to run ./download.sh which then it will…

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