Kimi K3 weights released: deployment and local-hardware discussion
Read the original at old.reddit.com→Just noticed this exists, 1M context MOE with 48B par seems just like what Ive been looking for - it runs pretty damn fast too compared to Qwen 3.6 35B. after some testing it seems capable of producing *not terrible*...
Original headline: "Kimi Linear 48B A3B?"
Coverage timeline
- Jul 25, 17:58 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source Kimi Linear 48B A3B?
- Jul 26, 12:05 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Kimi K3 gets open weighted tomorrow!
- Jul 26, 19:51 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Kimi K3 countdown has been released
- Jul 27, 08:26 UTC r/LocalLLaMA I want to run Kimi K3 at home, so I’m trying to make 2.8T-scale experimentation cheaper
- Jul 27, 14:18 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Kimi K3 weights drop today. We're deploying on A100s, H200s and B300s this week and the A100 math is already rough
- Jul 27, 15:04 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Where is KIMI-K3 - countdown finished
- Jul 27, 15:09 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Here it is boys, The Kimi K3 2.8T
- Jul 27, 15:09 UTC r/LocalLLaMA KIMI K3’s WEIGHTS ARE OUT!
- Jul 27, 15:11 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Kimi K3 weights now released.
- Jul 27, 16:58 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Viable ways to run K3 locally
- Jul 27, 17:57 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Kimi K3 text-only for llama.cpp
- Jul 27, 19:20 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Kimi K3 on HF Viewer!
- Jul 27, 23:25 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Kimi K3 is like an F1 machine inside a show window.
- Jul 27, 23:56 UTC r/LocalLLaMA A user has managed to run Kimi K3 on 80xRTX 5090, via 25GbE Ethernet.
- Jul 28, 16:47 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Kimi K3 tops arena.ai new FullStack leaderboard
- Jul 28, 21:43 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Unsloth has begun dropping Kimi K3 GGUFs. The MXFP4 (it's 1.5 TB) and mmproj are already there.
- Jul 28, 22:09 UTC r/LocalLLaMA I got Kimi-k3 running.....
- Jul 29, 03:40 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Anyone tried the Q1 Kimi K3 yet? (555GB)
- Jul 29, 16:13 UTC r/LocalLLaMA First Kimi K3 results on home lab ~ 4t/s
- Jul 29, 19:39 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Kimi K3 for local use (1.56TB → 594GB) compressed and released by Unsloth
- Jul 29, 22:08 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Quantizing Kimi K3 (2.8T A50B) to GGUF ourselves - Q3_K_S works, 1.1 TB on disk
- Jul 29, 23:09 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Extracting MoE experts from Kimi K3
- Jul 30, 05:51 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Anyone tested the IQ1_M 342GB Pruned Kimi K3? Is it usable?
- Jul 30, 09:53 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Kimi-K3 on single 8xH200?