abacusai/Llama-3-Smaug-8B

Llama-3-Smaug-8B is an 8 billion parameter instruction-tuned language model developed by Abacus.AI, built upon Meta's Llama 3 architecture. It is specifically optimized using the Smaug recipe to enhance performance in real-world multi-turn conversations. This model demonstrates improved conversational capabilities, particularly in initial turns, compared to its base model, Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct.