Moonshot releases Kimi K3 report, detailing how a 2.8T open model runs

The July 27th report details hybrid attention, 16-of-896 expert routing and a serving stack that still demands data-center scale.

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K3 shows that open weights alone do not make a frontier model practical. Draft models, cache systems and accelerator-scale serving now shape distribution and cost.

Illustration of Moonshot's Kimi K3 2.8T model architecture showing hybrid attention, 16-of-896 expert routing, and a data-center scale serving stack.

Zhilin Yang's Moonshot AI released the full weights and technical report for Kimi K3 on July 27th, documenting the architecture and infrastructure behind a 2.8 trillion-parameter model that activates 104 billion parameters for each token.…

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