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Meta / MetaMorph

MetaMorph

Meta/NYU research adaptation of Llama 3.1 8B for joint multimodal understanding and generation through visual prediction instruction tuning.

restrictedClosed weightsGeneral purposeImage generationImage editing
Official documentation (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 13 Oct 2026
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Context windowNot collectedAwaiting source review
Maximum outputNot collectedAwaiting source review
Input billingNot collectedMeta · research reference
Output billingNot collectedNo inferred price

Specifications

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Context / input limit
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Maximum output
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Input modalities
Text, Image, VideoSource for Input modalities (opens in a new tab)
Reasoning
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Tool calling
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Structured output
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Streaming
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Batch processing
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Fine-tuning
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Knowledge cutoff
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Release date
2024-12-18Source for Release date (opens in a new tab)

Research disclosure date, not general API or weight availability.

Parameters
Llama 3.1 8B base plus visual projection/head and separate vision/diffusion componentsSource for Parameters (opens in a new tab)

No full-system total parameter count is inferred.

Architecture
Visual prediction instruction tuning; SigLIP visual embeddings, autoregressive language/vision heads and an adapted diffusion visualizerSource for Architecture (opens in a new tab)
Languages
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Context caching
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No model-specific inference service or discounted prompt-cache contract is established for these research weights.

visualTokenization
Image features interpolated to 64 continuous visual tokensSource for visualTokenization (opens in a new tab)

Not a maximum image count or total context limit.

researchCode
Public training and inference code; original checkpoint download pendingSource for researchCode (opens in a new tab)
codeLicense
CC-BY-NC 4.0 for the published repositorySource for codeLicense (opens in a new tab)

Does not imply availability of the original model weights or override licenses of base components.

researchReasoning
Visual puzzle solving and knowledge-conditioned generation demonstratedSource for researchReasoning (opens in a new tab)

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Access & pricing

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Meta · research reference

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API model ID
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Access
Train locally using published code and permissible data. The original authors’ trained weights are not currently supplied by the reviewed repository.
Regions
Research deployment only; public availability and residency are not established

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Data & enterprise terms

The cited research release does not supply a current production processing/retention agreement. Research access or an expired demonstration is not a production API entitlement.

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Caching

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01 / INITIAL INPUTProcess & retain

The system processes eligible input and retains reusable state.

02 / LATER REQUESTCheck available state

Reuse depends on matching input, session state and the cache policy.

03 / CACHE HITReuse & generate

Reusing state can reduce repeated work. Any charges follow the billing rules below.

Meta · research reference

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How it works
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Minimum reusable input
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Lifetime & refresh
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How to enable it
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Usage fields
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Billing rules
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Limits & data boundaries
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What the measurements say

No benchmark observations have been added for this model. We do not turn a vendor description into a performance score.

Latency and throughput depend on the host, request size, reasoning settings and load. There is no measured speed or global usage figure in this record.

The record behind the model

Why it is included

The official facebookresearch repository explicitly says original model weights are still being prepared for release. Research code is public under CC-BY-NC 4.0, and the Llama, SigLIP and diffusion base components are separately available; this record covers the unreleased trained MetaMorph adaptation, not those open base weights.

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Lifecycle dates

Research paper disclosure18 Dec 2024Source (opens in a new tab)
Training code released; original model weights still pending14 Apr 2025Source (opens in a new tab)

Sources reviewed