Models & Products Updated 2026

Llama

Definition

Meta's family of openly released large language models, influential for bringing strong, locally runnable models to researchers and developers.

Llama, introduced by Touvron et al. (2023), is a series of foundation models released with open weights. The first release showed that models trained on public data could match much larger closed models, and its open availability catalysed a large ecosystem of fine-tuned, on-device and research variants.

Llama is the canonical example of an open-weight model, contrasting with API-only systems like GPT-4, Claude and Gemini.

References

Primary, peer-reviewed and archival sources for this definition.

LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models
Touvron, H., Lavril, T., Izacard, G., Martinet, X., Lachaux, M.-A., et al. (2023). arXiv preprint (Meta AI).

Dictionary & encyclopedic entries

Cite this entry

MultipleChat. "Llama." MultipleChat AI & LLM Glossary, 2026. https://multiple.chat/ai-glossary/llama

Related terms

See this in practice

Run the same prompt across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity side by side — with your own files as context and answers you can cross-check.

Try MultipleChat Free

Continue learning

See paid plans