Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 as open weights

Kimi K3 released as open weights — 2.8T total / 104B active, 69 KDA layers + 24 Gated MLA layers, a context of 1,048,576. Its own Kimi K3 License

Why it matters

An open-weight model in the 3-trillion-parameter class. A prime example of the pattern in which scale grows while licenses narrow

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Officialhuggingface.cohttps://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3

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