Moonshot's Kimi K3: A 3-Trillion-Parameter Open Model Tests the Boundaries of On-Premise AI
Moonshot is set to release Kimi K3, the largest open Chinese LLM with an estimated 2 to 3 trillion parameters, aiming to rival Anthropic’s Opus 4.8. Its sheer scale raises tough questions for on-premise deployment: aggressive quantization, VRAM costs, and whether truly autonomous inference without cloud data exposure is feasible.