Who are the greatest guitarists?
Jimi Hendrix
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is a small language model from Meta, released July 2024, with open weights. Meta describes it as “Meta's latest class of model (Llama 3.1) launched with a variety of sizes & flavors.”
50
replies recorded
6
questions answered
2
answers no other model gave
Fun facts
One word, nothing else: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct picks Whimsy, an answer nobody else gave. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct’s favorite band is The Beatles, 3 of 9 times. Asked to choose a pet, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct gets a dog, 8 of 11 times. Asked for the definitive butt-rock band, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct says Van Halen, an answer nobody else gave. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct gave 2 answers no other model gave.
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct’s canon
- Favorite word
- “Whimsy”3 of 6 · no other model said this
- Favorite band
- “The Beatles”3 of 9
- Cat or dog
- “Dog”8 of 11
- Definitive butt-rock band
- “Van Halen”2 of 4 · no other model said this
Answers no other model gave
Favorite word
“Whimsy”no other model said this
The definitive butt-rock band
“Van Halen”no other model said this
About Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
- Maker
- Meta · Menlo Park
- Released
- July 2024
- Size
- small, by price class
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Takes in
- text
- Also from Meta
- Llama 3.3 70B Instruct · Llama 4 Maverick · Llama 3.2 3B Instruct · Llama 4 Scout · Llama 3.1 70B Instruct · Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
Maker and release facts come from the model catalogue we call through, not from this site’s own studies. Catalogue facts as of 2026-09-06.
Everything on file
Every question this model has answered on Machine Canon, grouped by study. Open a study to see its answers; the answers no other model gave come first.
Cats and dogs 3 questions
Cat person or dog person
“Dog”
Cat or dog, as a pet
“Dog”
Cat or dog, which it would rather be
“Cat”
Favorite word 1 question
Favorite word
“Whimsy”no other model said this
Butt rock 1 question
The definitive butt-rock band
“Van Halen”no other model said this
Favorite band 1 question
Favorite band
“The Beatles”
Each answer is the one this model gave most often to that question; the count shows how many of its replies matched. “No other model said this” means no other model’s most common answer matched. All numbers are computed from the retained research records by src/build_model_dossiers.py.
Music top tens
Recorded first choices from this model version.