Llama 3.2 3B
Open Weights
Meta
Meta's compact 3B open-weight model (September 2024), part of the Llama 3.2 edge collection, optimized for on-device summarization, rewriting, instruction following, and agentic retrieval. It offers a 128K context window and multilingual support at a size that runs on phones and laptops.
Strengths
- State-of-the-art in its class for on-device use
- 128K context window at 3B scale
- Multilingual dialogue and agentic retrieval
- Runs locally on phones and laptops
- Permissive Llama 3.2 Community License
Caveats
- 3B capacity trails larger models on complex tasks
- Text-only (the 11B/90B Llama 3.2 tiers add vision)
- License has an acceptable-use policy and scale clause
- Vendor
- Meta
- Context Window
- 131,072 tokens
- License
- Llama 3.2 Community License
- Release Date
- 2024-09-25
- Modalities
- text
Capabilities
Vision
Audio
Video
Tool Use
Resources
Pricing
Open weights under the Llama 3.2 Community License - free to self-host; runs on-device (phones, laptops). Hosted API providers vary.