Moonshot releases Kimi K3, the largest AI model ever made available for free download

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model on Hugging Face, making it the largest AI model ever freely downloadable. The model uses sparse activation (only 16 of 896 blocks per request) to reduce compute to ~50B parameters, matches closed models on benchmarks, and comes with a commercial license targeting cloud providers earning over $20m annually.

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