The Hugging Face Hub hosts the world's best open-source LLMs — models you can download, run, and fine-tune for free.

Must-Know Open-Source LLMs

• Llama 3 (Meta): Most powerful open-source LLM family — 8B, 70B, 405B parameters
• Mistral / Mixtral: Extremely efficient — punches well above its weight class
• Phi-3 (Microsoft): Best small model — near GPT-4 quality at 3.8B parameters
• Gemma 2 (Google): Strong performance, commercially usable
• Qwen 2.5 (Alibaba): Strong multilingual capabilities

How to Choose

Phi-3 for edge/local deployment. Mistral for balanced performance. Llama 70B for GPT-4-level tasks on your own infrastructure.

Reference:

Meta Llama on Hugging Face

https://huggingface.co/meta-llama