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Moonshot AI releases 2.8T Kimi K3 weights, largest ever, but impractical to run

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Moonshot AI has released the full 2.8 trillion parameter weights for its Kimi K3 model, making it the largest open-weight model to date. Despite the massive size and open release, running Kimi K3 is practically impossible on consumer hardware due to its extreme VRAM requirements, estimated at over 1.6 terabytes. This release highlights a tension within the open-weight movement, where the commoditization of models may not equate to true democratization of AI capabilities due to the significant infrastructure needed for deployment. AI

IMPACT Highlights the growing gap between open-weight model availability and practical deployment feasibility due to massive infrastructure requirements.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card and weights.

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COVERAGE [7]

  1. X — Omar Sanseviero (HF research) TIER_1 English(EN) · omarsar0 ·

    With Kimi K3 being this good, there is no more ignoring of open-weight models going forward. You are doing yourself a huge disservice if so. Time to start ownin

    With Kimi K3 being this good, there is no more ignoring of open-weight models going forward. You are doing yourself a huge disservice if so. Time to start owning every bit of your intelligence stack. Start small if you need to, but start somewhere.

  2. Towards AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Caspar Bannink - AI Engineer ·

    Will the US Really Ban Open-Weight Models? The Kimi K3 Fallout

    <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://pub.towardsai.net/will-the-us-really-ban-open-weight-models-the-kimi-k3-fallout-b0d0bde06757?source=rss----98111c9905da---4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1400/1*vxgDwwHYV5WynfY-Yk56vg.png…

  3. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Moonshot released Kimi K3's full 2.8T weights for free. The move, not the size, is the story: you can't sell 'we have the best model' when the best one is a fre

    Moonshot released Kimi K3's full 2.8T weights for free. The move, not the size, is the story: you can't sell 'we have the best model' when the best one is a free download someone else paid to train. Open weights don't democratize AI, they commoditize your competitor's moat. # AI …

  4. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Max Quimby ·

    Kimi K3 Shipped 1.56TB of Open Weights. Good Luck.

    <p>On July 27, Moonshot AI delivered on its promise: the full <a href="https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kimi K3 weights</a> landed on HuggingFace. All 2.8 trillion parameters. 96 shards. 1.56 terabytes. The largest open-weight model ever releas…

  5. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/SavunOski ·

    Kimi K3 weights now released.

    <table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1v8364f/kimi_k3_weights_now_released/"> <img alt="Kimi K3 weights now released." src="https://preview.redd.it/nlw2mqk9gsfh1.jpeg?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=45fcb7df195400c006c65e9cde0c40c5436…

  6. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/qubridInc ·

    Kimi K3 weights drop today. We're deploying on A100s, H200s and B300s this week and the A100 math is already rough

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>tldr; we are going to host K3 on A100s (yes, thats correct, we'll try to see if it holds up), H200s &amp; B300s - expect results for A100s &amp; H200s this week while we setup the B300 cluster this weekend &amp; maybe results by next week.</p> <p…

  7. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Kimi K3's weights are public — but the license restricts commercial use above a certain scale. "Open" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Worth reading the fi

    Kimi K3's weights are public — but the license restricts commercial use above a certain scale. "Open" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Worth reading the fine print before building anything on it: open weights ≠ open source, and the distinction matters a lot when you're think…

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