Run Llama 3 Smaug 8B on iPhone, iPad & Mac
General finetune of Llama 3 8B with improved first-turn instruction following
Llama 3 Smaug 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
- Llama 2
- Quantization
- OmniQuant 3-bit, OmniQuant 4-bit
- Family
- Llama 3 8B
What Llama 3 Smaug 8B is good at
Llama 3 Smaug 8B is a fine-tuned version of the Llama 3 8B Instruct model, with 8 billion parameters and an 8192-token context window. It follows instructions well and retains the general knowledge of the Llama 3 8B family. In multi-turn conversations, it is especially good at delivering a strong first response, scoring 8.78 out of 10 on the first turn of the MT-Bench benchmark compared to 8.31 for the original Llama 3 8B Instruct, while matching its second-turn performance.
Which of your devices can run it
iPhone
iPad
Mac
How to run Llama 3 Smaug 8B in Private LLM
- Download Private LLM from the App Store.
- Open the in-app model library and choose Llama 3 Smaug 8B.
- Download the model once, then chat fully offline.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes. Llama 3 Smaug 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. Llama 3 Smaug 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, Llama 3 Smaug 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 Llama 3 Smaug 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 Llama 3 Smaug 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 Llama 3 Smaug 8B's Hugging Face model card, released under the Llama 2 license. Private LLM ships its own quantized models, built with OmniQuant quantization tuned per model, and isn't affiliated with the model's authors.