CodeLlama 7B Instruct

CodeLlama 7B Instruct is Meta's instruction-following code generation model, released on August 24, 2023 as part of the Code Llama family. It starts from Llama 2 7B, adds 500 billion tokens of code-specialized training, then instruction fine-tuning so it responds to natural-language requests about code, including generation, explanation, and review.

It was among the first widely adopted open-weight coding models and established the template for the code-model wave that followed. The 7B size runs on a single GPU, and the Instruct variant is the one Meta recommended for conversational coding assistance. Weights carry the Llama 2 Community License, a custom license with additional terms, so review before commercial use.