Llama 3.2 1B Instruct by Meta is a powerful, multilingual large language model with 1.23 billion parameters, optimized for instruction-tuned text-only tasks such as dialogue, agentic retrieval, and summarization. It employs an efficient auto-regressive transformer architecture enhanced with supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback to align with human preferences for helpfulness and safety. The model supports multiple languages including English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, and Thai, and can handle a large context length of up to 128,000 tokens.
It delivers strong performance on various industry benchmarks, making it suited for commercial and research use in building safe and flexible AI systems. Llama 3.2 1B Instruct also emphasizes responsible deployment and safety, encouraging developers to implement appropriate safeguards.
Model Files
Model File name
Size
QuantType
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct.BF16.gguf
2.48 GB
BF16
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct.F16.gguf
2.48 GB
F16
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct.F32.gguf
4.95 GB
F32
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct.Q2_K.gguf
581 MB
Q2_K
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct.Q3_K_L.gguf
733 MB
Q3_K_L
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct.Q3_K_M.gguf
691 MB
Q3_K_M
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct.Q3_K_S.gguf
642 MB
Q3_K_S
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct.Q4_K_M.gguf
808 MB
Q4_K_M
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct.Q4_K_S.gguf
776 MB
Q4_K_S
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct.Q5_K_M.gguf
912 MB
Q5_K_M
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct.Q5_K_S.gguf
893 MB
Q5_K_S
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct.Q6_K.gguf
1.02 GB
Q6_K
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct.Q8_0.gguf
1.32 GB
Q8_0
Quants Usage
(sorted by size, not necessarily quality. IQ-quants are often preferable over similar sized non-IQ quants)
Here is a handy graph by ikawrakow comparing some lower-quality quant
types (lower is better):