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

"Open-weight" tells you what you're legally allowed to do with the file. It doesn't tell you whether you can afford to load it.

The mixture-of-experts trick — and why it doesn't save you

K3 is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model: instead of running all 2.8 trillion parameters on every token, it routes each token through just 16 of its 896 experts — about 1.8% of the total. That's why…

The actual math

What actually changed for people running models at home

Nothing, directly — and that's the real story. K3 is part of a pattern: the frontier keeps scaling past what any single enthusiast rig can hold, while the models people actually run at home — dense…