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dolphin3

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Dolphin 3.0 Llama 3.1 8B 🐬 is the next generation of the Dolphin series of instruct-tuned models designed to be the ultimate general purpose local model, enabling coding, math, agentic, function calling, and general use cases.

3.6M pullsUpdated Feb 26, 20255 tags128K context

Quick start

ollama run dolphin3

Available sizes

TagSizeQuantizationContextMin RAM
dolphin3:latest4.9GBq4_k_m128K context6.1 GB

Strengths & Limitations

Strengths

  • General purpose local model
  • Coding and math proficiency
  • Agentic and function calling

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