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Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model

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Big release - https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct model weights are 958.52 GB

Paired with programming tools like Claude Code, it could be a low-cost/open-source replacement for Sonnet

According to the bench its closer to Opus, but I venture primarily for English and Chinese.

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Big release - https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct model weights are 958.52 GB

Paired with programming tools like Claude Code, it could be a low-cost/open-source replacement for Sonnet

how do you low cost run a 1T param model?

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Paired with programming tools like Claude Code, it could be a low-cost/open-source replacement for Sonnet

how do you low cost run a 1T param model?

32B active parameters with a single shared expert.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

how do you low cost run a 1T param model?

32B active parameters with a single shared expert.

This doesn’t change the VRAM usage, only the compute requirements.
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