Kimi K3 remains a 1.56 TB model three months after hype; running locally is impractical for most, as smaller models have caught up.
Read the original at www.reddit.com→K3 came out in July hyped as the best open model you could download, and it scored 57 on Artificial Analysis, right up there with Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5. I went back to see what running it actually looks like now,...
Original headline: "Kimi K3, three months after the hype: too big for almost anyone to run locally, and smaller models have already caught it"
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- Oct 16, 21:14 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source Kimi K3, three months after the hype: too big for almost anyone to run locally, and smaller models have already caught it