Moonshot opens Kimi K3 weights — but few can run it

The New Stack · 2 months ago · 51 ● 33 sources

Moonshot AI released open weights for Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter language model, on Hugging Face following overwhelming API demand. Running the model requires approximately 1.4 TB of storage and a distributed GPU environment with at least eight servers equipped with eight NVIDIA H100 or B200 accelerators each. Organizations can now self-host K3 to avoid recurring API costs, though the substantial infrastructure investment makes this option practical primarily for those with strict regulatory requirements or existing GPU capacity.