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Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct

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Description
This container houses the Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct, a compact 1B parameter model from Meta AI fine-tuned for dialogue. It's designed to be highly efficient and accessible, making it adept at question answering, summarization, and other instructions.
Publisher
NVIDIA
Latest Tag
1.12.0
Modified
August 27, 2025
Compressed Size
12 GB
Multinode Support
No
Multi-Arch Support
Yes
1.12.0 (Latest) Security Scan Results

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Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct Overview

Description:

This container houses the Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct, which is an instruction-tuned language model from Meta AI designed to follow user prompts and generate helpful, conversational responses. As a 1 billion parameter model, it's a highly efficient and compact member of the Llama 3.2 family, optimized for a balance of performance and accessibility across a wide range of hardware. It's specifically fine-tuned for dialogue-based applications, making it adept at tasks like question answering, summarization, and other instruction-following scenarios.

The container components are ready for commercial/non-commercial use.

Third-Party Community Consideration

This model is not owned or developed by NVIDIA. This model has been developed and built to a third-party's requirements for this application and use case; see link to Non-NVIDIA [meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct]
(meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct · Hugging Face).

License/Terms of Use:

GOVERNING TERMS: The NIM container is governed by the NVIDIA Software License Agreement and the Product-Specific Terms for NVIDIA AI Products; and the use of the model is governed by the NVIDIA AI Foundation Models Community License Agreement.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Llama 3.2 Community License Agreement. Build with Llama.

You are responsible for ensuring that your use of NVIDIA provided models complies with all applicable laws.

Deployment Geography:

Global

Release Date:

Build.Nvidia.com 09/25/2024 via
llama-3.2-1b-instruct Model by Meta | NVIDIA NIM

Hugging Face 09/25/2024 via
meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct · Hugging Face

NGC 09/25/2024 via
https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nim/teams/meta/containers/llama-3.2-1b-instruct

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct Container includes the following model:

Model Name & Link Use Case How to Pull the Model
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct A compact, efficient model for conversational AI, including chatbots, question-answering, and content creation. Automatic

Deployment Details:

Visit the NIM Container LLM page for release documentation, deployment guides, and more.

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Our AI models are designed and/or optimized to run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. By leveraging NVIDIA’s hardware (e.g. GPU cores) and software frameworks (e.g., CUDA libraries), the model achieves faster training and inference times compared to CPU-only solutions.

Container Version(s):

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-1.12.0

Ethical Considerations:

NVIDIA believes Trustworthy AI is a shared responsibility and we have established policies and practices to enable development for a wide array of AI applications. When downloaded or used in accordance with our terms of service, developers should work with their internal developer team to ensure this model meets requirements for the relevant industry and use case and addresses unforeseen product misuse

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