Run Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B on iPhone, iPad & Mac
General assistant with function calling, structured JSON, and ChatML (Llama 3 8B)
Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B runs 100% private on iPhone, iPad & Mac inside Private LLM — no internet connection required, no data sent to any server.
Model on Hugging Face
Specifications
- Parameters
- 8B
- Context window
- 8K tokens
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Quantization
- OmniQuant 3-bit, OmniQuant 4-bit
- Family
- Llama 3 8B
What Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B is good at
Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B is an 8-billion-parameter assistant built on the Llama 3 8B family, with an 8192-token context window. It merges the instruction-following and conversational abilities of Hermes 2 Pro and Llama 3 Instruct, then was further refined with RLHF. The model is notably good at function calling and generating structured JSON outputs, using the ChatML prompt format to support multi-turn tool use.
Which of your devices can run it
iPhone
iPad
Mac
How to run Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B in Private LLM
- Download Private LLM from the App Store.
- Open the in-app model library and choose Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B.
- Download the model once, then chat fully offline.
Variants & related models
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Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B
General-purpose Llama 3 8B finetune for function calling and JSON
L3 Umbral Mind RP v3.0 8B
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Llama 3 8B Instruct MopeyMule
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Llama 3 Instruct 8B SPPO Iter3
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Frequently asked questions
Yes. Hermes 2 Theta 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 Theta 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 Theta 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 Theta Llama 3 8B in Private LLM
Private LLM has run local AI on iPhone, iPad, and Mac since 2023, well before Apple Intelligence, LM Studio, Ollama, etc. existed. Inference happens on your device, so your Hermes 2 Theta 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 Theta Llama 3 8B's Hugging Face model card, released under the Apache 2.0 license. Private LLM ships its own quantized models, built with OmniQuant quantization tuned per model, and isn't affiliated with the model's authors.