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Kimi K3

Active Parameters

2.8T

Context Length

1.05M

Modality

Multimodal

Architecture

Mixture of Experts (MoE)

License

Open Weights

Release Date

27 Jul 2026

Knowledge Cutoff

-

System Requirements

VRAM requirements for different quantization methods and context sizes

1,024 tokens

5886.41 GB VRAM

Consumer

526x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

113x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

122x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

1,048,576 tokens

10914.34 GB VRAM

Consumer

1259x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

243x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

309x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

Architecture Diagram

Input TokensToken EmbeddingPosition: RoPEHidden: 7.2k · Context: 1.05M · Vocab: 163.8kx 93 layersRMSNormPre-AttentionMulti-Layer Attention96Q / 96KV headsHead dim: 128+RMSNormPre-FFNSparse MoE FFN (16/896 experts)ActivationIntermediate: 3.1k+Final RMSNormOutput Logits

Evaluation Benchmarks

No evaluation benchmarks for Kimi K3 available.

Rankings

Overall Rank

-

Coding Rank

-

About Kimi K3

Kimi K3 is a flagship open-weights 2.8T parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) multimodal model developed by Moonshot AI. It features a 1M token context window, 896 total experts with 16 active experts per token, hybrid linear attention (Kimi Delta Attention), and native support for text and vision inputs.

Technical Specifications

Attention

Attention Structure

Multi-Layer Attention

Attention Heads

96

Key-Value Heads

96

Attention Head Dimension

128

Position Embedding

ROPE

RoPE Theta

-

Sliding Window Attention

-

Sliding Window Size

-

Sliding Window Ratio

-

Linear Attention

Yes

Linear Attention Ratio

74.2%

Normalization

RMS Normalization

Activation Function

-

Dimensions

Hidden Dimension Size

7,168

Number of Layers

93

FFN Intermediate Size (Dense)

33,792

Multi-Token Prediction Heads

-

Tokenizer

Vocabulary Size

163,840

Mixture of Experts

Total Expert Parameters

32.0B

Number of Experts

896

Active Experts

16

Shared Experts

2

FFN Intermediate Size (per Expert)

3,072

Dense Layers Before MoE

1

About Kimi K3

Kimi K3 is a flagship Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) multimodal model series developed by Moonshot AI.


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