# Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

> Four hundred and five billion parameters that anyone could download, which Meta called the first frontier-level open source model and almost nobody had the hardware to serve. Its more consequential job was as a teacher: the licence was rewritten so that its outputs could legally train other models, and a great deal of what it knew now lives inside models small enough to run on one card.

2024-07-23 — 2026-07-07 · lived 1 year, 11 months

This URL is the guided walk — the 3D cemetery, standing at this grave. The written record is at [Llama 3.1 405B Instruct's epitaph](https://models.rip/llama-3-1-405b-instruct/epitaph).

## Elsewhere

- [The whole cemetery](https://models.rip/)
- [The dataset](https://models.rip/graveyard.json)