Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27(huggingface.co)
460 points by nateb2022 5 hours ago | 208 comments
tl;dr: Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3, billed as the world's first open 3T-parameter-class model, featuring a new architecture based on Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals, native agentic capabilities (tool calling, browsing, multi-step planning), and an extended context window for repo-scale code. Weights will be released openly on HuggingFace, with the expected drop date listed as July 27, 2026.
HN Discussion:
  • Hosting costs and pricing for a 3T model will reveal serving economics
  • Consumer hardware is poorly shaped for running large LLMs locally
  • Competition among providers will drive inference prices down significantly
  • Resource requirements make this model inaccessible to most enterprises
  • ~Interest in distilling or shrinking the model for consumer hardware use