Run Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B on iPhone, iPad & Mac
Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B runs 100% private on iPhone, iPad & Mac inside Private LLM — no internet connection required, no data sent to any server.
Download the quantized weights
These are the exact OmniQuant weights Private LLM runs for Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B, published on our Hugging Face org. They're standard weights you can load in any app that supports the format, not just Private LLM.
Specifications
- Parameters
- 8B
- Context window
- 8K tokens
- License
- Llama 3
- Quantization
- OmniQuant 3-bit, OmniQuant 4-bit
- Family
- Llama 3 8B
What Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B is good at
Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B is an upgraded language model based on Llama 3 8B. It is good at general conversation and tasks, but especially excels at function calling and generating structured JSON outputs. The model was developed by Nous Research in collaboration with Fireworks.AI.
Which of your devices can run it
iPhone
iPad
Mac
How to run Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B in Private LLM
- Download Private LLM from the App Store.
- Open the in-app model library and choose Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B.
- Download the model once, then chat fully offline.
Variants & related models
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B runs on iPhone models with enough memory, such as iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone Air, iPhone 17, iPhone 16 Pro / 16 Pro Max, iPhone 16 / 16 Plus, iPhone 16e, iPhone 15 Pro / 15 Pro Max, iPhone 15 / 15 Plus, iPhone 14 / 14 Plus / 14 Pro / 14 Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro / 13 Pro Max, iPhone 12 Pro / 12 Pro Max, fully on-device in Private LLM — no internet connection required.
Yes. Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B runs on Macs with enough unified memory, such as Mac (Apple Silicon, 192GB), MacBook Pro (M4 Max, 128GB), Mac Studio / Pro (Apple Silicon, 96GB), MacBook Pro (M4 Max, 64GB), MacBook Pro (M4 Max, 48GB), MacBook Pro (M4 Max, 36GB), Mac (Apple Silicon, 32GB), MacBook Air (M4, 24GB), MacBook Air (M-series, 16GB), Mac (Apple Silicon, 8GB), fully on-device in Private LLM.
Yes. Once downloaded in Private LLM, Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B runs 100% on-device — no internet connection, and nothing is sent to any server.
Private LLM is a one-time purchase with no subscription and no per-message cost. The models themselves are open source — once downloaded, they run offline with nothing to pay per use.
Why run Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B in Private LLM
Private LLM has run local AI on iPhone, iPad, and Mac since 2023, before Apple Intelligence existed. Inference happens on your device, so your Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B conversations never reach a server. The part most apps gloss over is quantization, and that is exactly where on-device quality is won or lost. Most llama.cpp and MLX wrappers ship the same off-the-shelf 4-bit RTN weights. Private LLM ships GPTQ and OmniQuant quantization, tuned per model, and our 3-bit OmniQuant models match or beat those 4-bit RTN builds on the same Apple Silicon. Run the same model both ways and you feel it in the first reply. See how our quantization works.
Specifications and summary come from Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B's Hugging Face model card, released under the Llama 3 license. Private LLM ships its own quantized models, built with OmniQuant quantization tuned per model, and isn't affiliated with the model's authors.