kimi k3

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the biggest open AI model ever drops this week. you can download all 1.4 terabytes — you just can't run it

Kimi K3's open weights land July 27. It's genuinely great and genuinely free. It also needs about 1.4TB of memory to load, which means the download is the easy part. Here's the real hardware math — and the far smaller model that gets you most of the way.

Lena Fischer · 1h ago · 9 min

Kimi's official web interface showing the K3 Max model selector

China's Kimi K3 keeps calling itself 'Claude.' that's not the smoking gun everyone thinks it is

screenshots of Moonshot's new model introducing itself as 'Claude, made by Anthropic' are everywhere. it's real, and it's a genuine clue — but on its own it proves way less than people think. here's the actual picture.

Lena Fischer · 4d ago · 6 min

China just dropped an AI model that beats Claude. good luck running it — 8 GPUs isn't even close

Moonshot's new open-weight model is the biggest ever made, and it's genuinely good. it's also flat-out impossible to run at home — and the reason why is a lesson in how GPUs actually work.

Lena Fischer · 4d ago · 5 min