Meta has released Code Llama 70B, claiming it to be the best-performing open-source model. However, developers generally report that the high hardware costs are unaffordable. Code Llama performs exceptionally well in the HumanEval and MBPP tests, surpassing GPT-3.5 and Llama 2. Critics point out that using the 70B model may require expensive hardware, and some developers have indicated that it is unable to run on lower-spec machines. Meta states that the model supports multiple programming languages, including Python.