---
title: "Kimi K3's open weights just dropped, and it's another reason local AI is getting scary good"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/kimi-k3-s-open-weights-just-dropped-and-it-s-another-reason-local-ai-is-getting-scary-good-xesdvhrxh
source_url: https://www.xda-developers.com/kimi-k3-open-weights-local-ai-scary-good
type: article
source: "XDA Developers"
published: 2026-08-06T12:34:51.770Z
updated: 2026-08-07T02:04:04.384Z
tags: ["open-source", "llm", "local-ai", "mixture-of-experts"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 1
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Kimi K3's open weights just dropped, and it's another reason local AI is getting scary good

**[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Moonshot AI has released the full 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model on Hugging Face under an open-weight license. The model uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture, activating only 104 billion parameters per request, and is compressed to roughly 1.56TB using MXFP4 weights. Benchmark-wise, K3 competes with closed-source frontier models like Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, while being significantly cheaper on API pricing. Self-hosting remains impractical for most — a community project called WASTE managed to run it on a 64GB MacBook Pro, but throughput was only 0.32–0.34 tokens per second due to SSD streaming bottlenecks. The release is seen as a milestone for the open-weight AI ecosystem, signaling that the gap between open and closed models is narrowing.

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**@doncho** · 0 upvotes

> Excellent. But...
>
> Now we need a few hardware breakthroughs to tin it at home: free memory and cold fusion, home deployed nuclear reactors! 😱

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