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Kimi K3 open weights are live — 1.56 TB, 96 shards, MXFP4
Moonshot published the full K3 weights on Hugging Face on July 28, hitting the Modified MIT commitment it made at the July 16 API launch and closing the 'open-weight pending' gap we flagged at the time.
The download is 1.56 TB across 96 shards at MXFP4 quantization. That is the practical caveat on 'open': the licence lets you self-host a 2.8T-parameter frontier model, and the hardware bill to actually do it puts it out of reach for everyone except serving providers — which is exactly who picked it up. The provider table filled out within a day.
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