llama-3-trained-approximately-15-trillion-tokens

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Created 2026-08-24T17:11:15+00:00

Llama 3 was trained on approximately 15 trillion tokens.

Summary

This pins down the sheer scale of text Llama 3 absorbed during training, roughly equivalent to reading the entire English Wikipedia ten thousand times over. It gives a concrete anchor for judging the model's breadth of knowledge, its fluency, and where its gaps or biases are most likely to show up.