K3 Dropped!
Summary
Moonshot AI released Kimi-K3, a multimodal image-text-to-text model available on Hugging Face with support for Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, and Docker.
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moonshotai/Kimi-K3 at main
Source: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3/tree/main LibrariesTransformersHow to use moonshotai/Kimi-K3 with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="moonshotai/Kimi-K3", trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
{"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
]
},
]
pipe(text=messages)
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoModel
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("moonshotai/Kimi-K3", trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto")
NotebooksGoogle ColabKaggleLocal AppsSettingsvLLMHow to use moonshotai/Kimi-K3 with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "moonshotai/Kimi-K3"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "moonshotai/Kimi-K3",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
},
{
"type": "image_url",
"image_url": {
"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
}
}
]
}
]
}'
Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3
SGLangHow to use moonshotai/Kimi-K3 with SGLang:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
--model-path "moonshotai/Kimi-K3" \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "moonshotai/Kimi-K3",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
},
{
"type": "image_url",
"image_url": {
"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
}
}
]
}
]
}'
Use Docker images
docker run --gpus all \
--shm-size 32g \
-p 30000:30000 \
-v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
--env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
--ipc=host \
lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
--model-path "moonshotai/Kimi-K3" \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "moonshotai/Kimi-K3",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
},
{
"type": "image_url",
"image_url": {
"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
}
}
]
}
]
}'
Docker Model RunnerHow to use moonshotai/Kimi-K3 with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3
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