I saw that Meta released the Llama 3 AI model, and people seem excited about it, so I decided to give it a try. I don’t have much experience running open-source AI models, and I didn’t see a lot of documentation about how to run them. I tinkered with it for a few hours and got Llama 3 working with Ollama, so I wanted to share my instructions. Provisioning a cloud server with a GPU To run this experiment, I provisioned the following server on Scaleway: