- Llama 3.2 introduces small vision LLMs (11B and 90B parameters) and lightweight text-only models (1B and 3B) for edge/mobile devices, with the smaller models supporting 128K token context.

- The 11B and 90B vision models are competitive with leading closed models like Claude 3 Haiku on image understanding tasks, while being open and customizable.

- Llama 3.2 comes with official Llama Stack distributions to simplify deployment across environments (cloud, on-prem, edge), including support for RAG and safety features.

- The lightweight 1B and 3B models are optimized for on-device use cases like summarization and instruction following.