Kimi K3 is like an F1 machine inside a show window.
Summary
Moonshot has released Kimi K3, an extremely large AI model that is virtually impossible to run on local workstations even with multiple RTX 6000 Blackwell GPUs, prompting the author to seek ways to run it via hacking or distillation.
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