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Reviewed May 2026

Tulu 3 8B

AI2's fully-open post-training recipe applied to Llama 3.1 8B. Open data, open code, open weights.

License: Llama 3.1 Community License·Released Nov 21, 2024·Context: 131,072 tokens

Overview

AI2's fully-open post-training recipe applied to Llama 3.1 8B. Open data, open code, open weights.

Family & lineage

How this model relates to others in its lineage. Family members share architecture and training-data roots; parent / children edges record direct distillation or fine-tune relationships.

Family siblings (tulu-3)
Tulu 3 8B8B
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Tulu 3 70B70B
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Distilled / fine-tuned from this

Strengths

  • Open data + open recipe
  • Strong instruction following

Weaknesses

  • Inherits Llama 3.1 base limitations

Quantization variants

Each quantization trades model quality for file size and VRAM. Q4_K_M is the most popular starting point.

QuantizationFile sizeVRAM required
Q4_K_M4.9 GB7 GB

Get the model

HuggingFace

Original weights

huggingface.co/allenai/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B

Source repository — direct quantization required.

Hardware that runs this

Cards with enough VRAM for at least one quantization of Tulu 3 8B.

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Frequently asked

What's the minimum VRAM to run Tulu 3 8B?

7GB of VRAM is enough to run Tulu 3 8B at the Q4_K_M quantization (file size 4.9 GB). Higher-quality quantizations need more.

Can I use Tulu 3 8B commercially?

Yes — Tulu 3 8B ships under the Llama 3.1 Community License, which permits commercial use. Always read the license text before deployment.

What's the context length of Tulu 3 8B?

Tulu 3 8B supports a context window of 131,072 tokens (about 131K).

Source: huggingface.co/allenai/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B

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