Developer
Use Guide

The Developer Use Guide is a resource for developers that provides best practices and considerations for building products powered by large language models (LLM) in a responsible manner, covering various stages of development from fine tuning to deployment.
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What's new

We’re excited to develop and release the latest Llama 4 models, the next generation of Llama with new capabilities including advanced model reasoning and agentic capabilities. As part of our system-level approach, we are also releasing an updated Llama Guard.
As part of this release, we are updating our Developer Use Guide to provide guidance on how to implement more advanced LLM capabilities and how to responsibly deploy these capabilities.

Detailed overview

A detailed overview of Llama 4 models.

System safety

Additional system-level safety alignment and best practices.

Responsible agents

Responsibility considerations for building Agents and using model reasoning.

Release resources

For the safe deployment of our Llama models, Meta recommends following the Developer Use Guide and using the resource guide below which provides resources to facilitate the implementation of best practices, mapped to each stage of LLM product development.

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