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Moonshotai releases Kimi-K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open model

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Moonshotai has released Kimi-K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight multimodal model with a 1-million-token context window. It uses a Stable LatentMoE architecture activating only 16 of 896 experts per token, achieving 2.5x scaling efficiency over its predecessor. The model outperforms many alternatives on agentic coding and research benchmarks.

Meridian48 take
While impressive on benchmarks, the model's licensing constraints and massive size may limit practical adoption outside well-resourced teams.
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A beginner's guide to the Kimi-K3 model by Moonshotai on Huggingface →
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