TinyLlama

Llama (Large Language Model Meta AI) is a state-of-the-art foundational large language model designed to help researchers advance their work in this subfield of AI. Smaller, more performant models such as Llama enable others in the research community who don’t have access to large amounts of infrastructure to study these models, further democratizing access in this important, fast-changing field. Training smaller foundation models like Llama is desirable in the large language model space because it requires far less computing power and resources to test new approaches, validate others’ work, and explore new use cases. Foundation models train on a large set of unlabeled data, which makes them ideal for fine-tuning for a variety of tasks. We are making Llama available at several sizes (7B, 13B, 33B, and 65B parameters) and also sharing a Llama model card that details how we built the model in keeping with our approach to Responsible AI practices.

LTM-2-mini is a 100M token context model: LTM-2-mini. 100M tokens equals ~10 million lines of code or ~750 novels. For each decoded token, LTM-2-mini’s sequence-dimension algorithm is roughly 1000x cheaper than the attention mechanism in Llama 3.1 405B1 for a 100M token context window. The contrast in memory requirements is even larger – running Llama 3.1 405B with a 100M token context requires 638 H100s per user just to store a single 100M token KV cache.2 In contrast, LTM requires a small fraction of a single H100’s HBM per user for the same context.