Setting Up Llama 3 Using API

An API key is a unique identifier used to control access to an API. It acts as a security token that the API provider issues to the developer to authenticate requests made to an API. Meta AI doesn't provide an official API key, but many third-party platforms deploy Llama 3 and allow access to it via API.

Together AI

Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company. It contributes open-source research findings, pre-trained models, and datasets to the community, helping to push the boundaries of AI development. Its decentralized cloud services enable developers and researchers from organizations of all sizes to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models.

In this lesson, we will use Together AI’s API key to access the Llama 3 model.

Accessing Llama 3 via an API key

The following are the steps to access Llama 3 from the Together AI platform using an API key and retrieve responses using Python.

1. Create an account on Together AI.

2. Install the required library.

3. Import necessary modules.

4. Make the API request.