Kimi K3
Moonshot AI Kimi K3 is an open-weight 2.8T-parameter multimodal MoE model with 104B active parameters, native MXFP4 weights, always-on reasoning, tool use, and a 1M-token context window. The official release targets large multi-accelerator deployments through vLLM, SGLang, or TokenSpeed rather than consumer local hardware.
Task Fit
Tool use, repo work, terminal workflows, and coding benchmarks.
Code generation, debugging, refactoring, and benchmark signal.
General writing, Q&A, and assistant use.
Document QA benefits from long context and instruction following.
Image or visual understanding, not necessarily image generation.
Not marked for image generation in the current library.
Not marked for video generation in the current library.
Not marked for voice in the current library.
Source Confidence
Variants and Quant Artifacts
Choose the artifact first; hardware fit follows from RAM, VRAM, format, and runtime.
| Quant | Format | Quality | Min RAM | Reco RAM | Runtime | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MXFP4 | safetensors | balanced | 2TB | 2TB | transformers, vllm, sglang, tokenspeed | Plan with this |
Recommended Hardware
No compatible local hardware found in the current hardware pool.
Benchmarks
Source and Review
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