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Llama
Llama is Meta’s family of large language models, released as downloadable weights under the Meta Llama Community Licence (open weights, not an OSI licence).
At a glance
Llama is Meta’s family of large language models, released as downloadable weights under the Meta Llama Community Licence (open weights, not an OSI licence).
Catalog categories: ai_model.
Catalogued capability areas: - General-purpose text generation and reasoning - Instruction-tuned and multimodal variants - Self-hostable weights
This summary reflects the catalog record, not a complete product specification. Verify intended users, end-to-end workflows, supported platforms, edge cases, data handling, and constraints against cited sources. Treat capability labels as research leads until that verification is complete.
- General-purpose text generation and reasoning
- Instruction-tuned and multimodal variants
- Self-hostable weights
Open-source alternative
4 candidate projects in the landscape. A candidate may cover all, part, or none of what Llama does — read the coverage and gaps below.
Mistral (Apache-2.0 models)
Apache-2.0Apache-2.0 licensed model family.
True OSI-licensed alternative.
Qwen
Apache-2.0 (many variants)Open-weight model family.
Licence varies by variant.
Falcon / OLMo
Apache-2.0Permissively licensed open models.
OLMo is fully open (data + code).
Ollama
MITLocal runner for open weights.
Runtime, not a model.
Coverage and gaps
Alternative coverage
Partial. Llama is open-weight, and genuinely open-source-licensed alternatives (Mistral Apache-2.0, OLMo) exist — hence no single "pending" project.
The gap
Llama’s licence is not OSI open source and carries use restrictions; fully open model families exist but at differing capability.
Build this product with your agent
This Markdown file is the coding-agent skill for Llama. Give it to your agent in your project; it guides research, reuse decisions, implementation and verification.
- agent-kit.mdDownloadable Markdown skill with product-specific instructions for your coding agent.available
- skill.mdGenerated copy of the same product skill — rae meta-llama --out ./meta-llama-agent.in kit
- mcp.jsonOptional MCP server config — rae meta-llama --out ./meta-llama-agent.in kit
- Product workspaceOptional starting workspace for your agent — rae build product meta-llama --out ./meta-llama.
- ChoosePick the product you want to build.
- ReviewAsk your agent to check the product skill, evidence and alternatives.
- BuildGive the skill to your coding agent and build in your own project.
- VerifyRun the checks for your implementation and review the result.
Evidence
Sources
- https://codetocloud.io/blog/open-source-llms-developers/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sqh6kk/stop_letting_vc_bros_gaslight_us_qwen_and_llama/
- https://onyx.app/insights/best-open-source-llms-2026
Provenance
- Catalog record — catalog/products.jsonl
- Research dossier — research/companies/meta/products/meta-llama.md
- REA web-surface report — catalog/rea/meta/meta-llama.md
- Open-source skill file — catalog/skills/meta/meta-llama.md
Next step
Give the Llama skill to your coding agent in your project. Ask it to evaluate Mistral (Apache-2.0 models) ↗ against your needs, reuse what fits, then follow the skill's build and verification instructions.
Give the product skill to your coding agent in the project where you want to build. Optional starter workspace: rae build product meta-llama --out ./meta-llama. CLI reference.