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Alongside WASTE, gavamedia/deltafin (603 stars, created July 28) runs full K3 on a single device with an OpenAI-compatible server. Moonshot published K3's open weights July 26-27 at 2.8T parameters; within 48 hours two separate projects appeared whose entire purpose is fitting it on one box. AirLLM (25,197 stars, created 2023) climbed Trending again the same week. The bottleneck on frontier open weights moved from "can I get them" to "can I page them off disk fast enough."
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Moonshot released K3's open weights July 26 with official guidance calling for 64+ accelerators. WASTE (1,366 stars, created July 28) runs it on a 64GB MacBook Pro at 0.45-0.62 tok/s, keeping the 27.28GB trunk resident and streaming experts from NVMe with 3-bit residual vector...
An open-weight Chinese frontier model is now a dropdown option in Microsoft's coding product. That happened before anyone finished characterizing what the model does. GitHub's changelog dated August 6 makes Kimi K3 generally available across Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business an...
The open-weight race just changed constraint. Moonshot AI suspended all new consumer subscriptions on July 20, roughly 48 hours after Kimi K3 launched, because request volume pushed its compute cluster to capacity. Remaining GPUs are reserved for existing paid subscribers. Tec...
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a sparse mixture-of-experts activating 16 of 896 experts per token. That's about 1.8% of the pool live at any moment, with a 1M-token context window and native vision. Two new architectural pieces show up: Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residu...
Moonshot released it July 16: 2.8T parameters, MoE routing 896 experts with 16 active per token, native multimodal input, 1M-token context, with full open weights promised by July 27. Model overview here. It ships MXFP4 (4-bit float with per-block scaling) from day one, puttin...
The UK AI Security Institute and US CAISI published a joint preliminary cyber evaluation of Moonshot's Kimi K3 (open weights due July 27). On ExploitBench, a Carnegie Mellon benchmark covering 41 post-2023 Chrome V8 vulnerabilities, K3 hit 32% versus 76% for the most cyber-cap...
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