Meta · Llama 3.1

Llama 3.1 70B Base

READER SUMMARY

Meta's downloadable 70B Llama 3.1 base checkpoint with 128K context and multilingual support.

DOOM SCORE58.9out of 100model risk profile, not the overall index

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1

Why this model scores 58.9

Strong general capability and downloadable weights enable extensive customization and harmful repurposing, although the base checkpoint has little independent agent behavior.

Capability66

Autonomy5

Deployment94

Misuse potential60

Control difficulty69

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MODEL-ATTRIBUTED EVIDENCE

News tied to Llama 3.1 70B Base

The model score of 58.9 rates this model's risk profile. The overall Doom Index of 63.2 measures the recalibrated complete evidence corpus. These values answer different questions.

NET MODEL-ATTRIBUTED INDEX CONTRIBUTION+0.01

Each article's leave-one-out Doom Index contribution is divided equally among the exact models named on that article. This prevents multi-model evidence from being claimed in full on several model pages. Model risk scores are recalculated from their technical profile and related news, but never feed back into the overall index.

23 Jul 2024CapabilityTOWARD

Meta releases frontier-scale Llama 3.1 open models

Meta released Llama 3.1 in 8B, 70B and 405B base and instruction tiers with 128K context, multilingual support, tool use, downloadable weights and day-one distribution through more than 25 partners.

Full item contribution: +0.05
Llama 3.1 70B Base equal share: +0.01

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Model score history

R1
Doom Score 58.9
New exact Llama 3.1 70B base checkpoint.
12 Aug 2026