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Kimi K3.1 Pro Weights Are Out: $20M License Cliff, ~1.56 TB Reality, and Hosted vs Self-Host

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Attributed compile + one small offline run on my box Primary source: moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro model card + LICENSE by Moonshot AI , weights public on Hugging Face as of our 2026-11-05 preflight (launch promise was “by Nov 4, 2026”). Secondary: vLLM recipe — moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro ; vLLM Day-0 blo…

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Timeline · 5 reports

  1. 2026-11-08 08:07 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro Shakes Up Western AI Coding
  2. 2026-11-06 17:02 · r/machinelearningnews
    Kimi K3.1 Pro (2.8T/104B) vs DeepSeek 1017 (552B/16B) vs GLM-5.3 & Qwen3.8-27B on AA Index v5: why a 16B-active model beats 104B on DeepSWE at 6.1x lower cost
  3. 2026-11-06 04:35 · DEV Community — AI
    Kimi K3.1 Pro Open Weights: A Developer's Checklist Before You Self-Host a 2.8T Model
  4. 2026-11-05 19:28 · DEV Community — AI
    Moonshot Just Put a 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Model on Hugging Face — Kimi K3.1 Pro's Open Weights Are Real, and the Fine Print Matters
  5. 2026-11-05 14:19 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Kimi K3.1 Pro Weights Are Out: $20M License Cliff, ~1.56 TB Reality, and Hosted vs Self-Host

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