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Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct ▼ 6

meta-llama · text-generation
OlderText
▲ 26Trending score
1.2MDownloads
♥ 5kLikes
1 year agoLast updated
#150of 150 tracked models
top 100% by trending score
Model IDmeta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
Authormeta-llama
Tasktext-generation
CategoryText
Licensellama3
Parameters8.0B
Trending score26
Downloads1,215,081
Likes4,968
Radar rank#150
HealthOlder
Freshness1 year ago (450.6 days)
Last modified2025-06-18T23:49:51.000Z

Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct is a text-generation model in the Text category, published by meta-llama. These figures are Hugging Face's own signals — downloads, likes and trending score — captured by Model Radar and refreshed daily. For weights, model card and usage, open it on Hugging Face.

Surge analysis

why it's on the radar

Hugging Face publishes a single trending score; it doesn't expose the formula. So Model Radar reads the surge from the four public signals that move with it — momentum, adoption, community and recency — each normalized against the tracked field, then weighted into a 0–100 composite. The weights are ours, and shown below. No hidden inputs.

55Radar surge index / 100
Momentum 44 / 100 · 45% weight
HF trending score 26, log-scaled vs the field's peak of 1763.
Adoption 72 / 100 · 25% weight
1.2M downloads, log-scaled vs the field's peak.
Community 89 / 100 · 18% weight
5k likes, log-scaled vs the field's peak.
Recency 6 / 100 · 12% weight
Last updated 1 year ago — newer weights higher.

Radar position over time

movement

Where Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct sits on the radar, tracked daily — slipped 6 positions since the prior run. position over the last 2 days tracked · best: #144.

#150Current rank
#144Best rank
▼ 6Since prior run

In context

vs. category peers

How this model stacks up against the other 47 Text models on the radar. The filled bar is this model; the tick is the category-peer median. Downloads and likes use a log scale (they span orders of magnitude).

Trending score▲ 26 · peer median ▲ 44
Downloads1.2M · peer median 26k
Likes♥ 5k · peer median ♥ 349
Freshness1 year ago · peer median 5 days ago

Bars are normalized against the most extreme model in the whole radar, so a near-full bar means category-leading. Peer median = the middle model of the 47 in this category.

Recency

last update

Where this model's last update lands on a freshness scale — fresh (<14d), recent (14–60d), or older.

updated 1 year ago
today14d60d1y+

Category peers

Text · 47 models

Other Text models ranked near this one — click through to compare.

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