Llama 2 at a glance
Llama 2 came in 7B, 13B and 70B sizes trained on 2 trillion tokens, with downloadable weights under a community license that allowed commercial use.
What changed with Llama 2
On July 18, 2023, Meta released Llama 2 with Microsoft as its preferred partner, describing it as free for research and commercial use. Unlike the first LLaMA, which was limited to researchers, the weights were openly downloadable under the Llama 2 Community License, and the model was also offered on Azure, AWS and Hugging Face.
According to Meta's model card, Llama 2 came in 7B, 13B and 70B parameter sizes, each with a pretrained and a chat-tuned version. The models were trained on 2 trillion tokens with a 4K-token context window. The license was Meta's own community license rather than a standard open-source license, and access required accepting its terms.
Llama 2 in numbers
Values are copied from the linked source on the date shown. They are not IA Compa measurements.
- Context windowas of · Source for Context window: huggingface.co (opens in a new tab)
- 4K tokens
How it compares
Models that were current when this was published (released in the six months before it, newest version of each line), so these figures are from that time. Under each chart is the current best. (Models)
Current best (as of Nov 6, 2026): GPT-6 Cyber, 1.05M tokens
Where to compare Llama 2
Independent leaderboards and official resources for comparing this model yourself. Rankings change often; each site shows its own current data.
General leaderboards
Why Llama 2 matters for businesses
For businesses, Llama 2 made self-hosting a capable model realistic for the first time. Companies with privacy or cost concerns could run it on their own servers and fine-tune it on their data, and it kicked off the wave of open-weight models that followed.
Sources for this story
- Official
- Llama-2-70b-hf model card (opens in a new tab)Official
Meta on Hugging Face · huggingface.co
- Llama 2 Chat 70B model page (opens in a new tab)Benchmark
Artificial Analysis · artificialanalysis.ai
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