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DB-GPT Now Supports Meta Llama 3.1 Series Models

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Fangyin Cheng
Fangyin Cheng
DB-GPT Core Team

We are thrilled to announce that DB-GPT now supports inference with the Meta Llama 3.1 series models!

Introducing Meta Llama 3.1​

Meta Llama 3.1 is a state-of-the-art series of language models developed by Meta AI. Designed with cutting-edge techniques, the Llama 3.1 models offer unparalleled performance and versatility. Here are some of the key highlights:

  • Variety of Models: Meta Llama 3.1 is available in 8B, 70B, and 405B versions, each with both instruction-tuned and base models, supporting contexts up to 128k tokens.
  • Multilingual Support: Supports 8 languages, including English, German, and French.
  • Extensive Training: Trained on over 1.5 trillion tokens, utilizing 250 million human and synthetic samples for fine-tuning.
  • Flexible Licensing: Permissive model output usage allows for adaptation into other large language models (LLMs).
  • Quantization Support: Available in FP8, AWQ, and GPTQ quantized versions for efficient inference.
  • Performance: The Llama 3 405B version has outperformed GPT-4 in several benchmarks.
  • Enhanced Efficiency: The 8B and 70B models have seen a 12% improvement in coding and instruction-following capabilities.
  • Tool and Function Call Support: Supports tool usage and function calling.

How to Access Meta Llama 3.1​

Your can access the Meta Llama 3.1 models according to Access to Hugging Face.

For comprehensive documentation and additional details, please refer to the model card.

Using Meta Llama 3.1 in DB-GPT​

Please read the Source Code Deployment to learn how to install DB-GPT from source code.

Llama 3.1 needs upgrade your transformers >= 4.43.0, please upgrade your transformers:

pip install --upgrade "transformers>=4.43.0"

Please cd to the DB-GPT root directory:

cd DB-GPT

We assume that your models are stored in the models directory, e.g., models/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct.

Then modify your .env file:

LLM_MODEL=meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct
# LLM_MODEL=meta-llama-3.1-70b-instruct
# LLM_MODEL=meta-llama-3.1-405b-instruct
## you can also specify the model path
# LLM_MODEL_PATH=models/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
## Quantization settings
# QUANTIZE_8bit=False
# QUANTIZE_4bit=True
## You can configure the maximum memory used by each GPU.
# MAX_GPU_MEMORY=16Gib

Then you can run the following command to start the server:

dbgpt start webserver

Open your browser and visit http://localhost:5670 to use the Meta Llama 3.1 models in DB-GPT.

Enjoy the power of Meta Llama 3.1 in DB-GPT!