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moonshotai/Kimi-K3

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  • Moonshot released weights for Kimi K3: 2.8 trillion parameters, a 1.56TB download, available on Hugging Face.
  • The license is more restrictive than K2’s: companies with over $20M annual revenue must sign a separate commercial agreement with Moonshot before using the model or derivatives commercially — Moonshot itself avoids the term “open source,” calling it “open weight” instead.
  • Practical point: most people won’t need to self-host the huge weights anyway — Kimi K3 is already available through multiple providers via OpenRouter at standard market pricing (~$3/M input, ~$15/M output tokens).