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Kimi K3, three months after the hype: too big for almost anyone to run locally, and smaller models have already caught it

K3 came out in July hyped as the best open model you could download, and it scored 57 on Artificial Analysis, right up there with Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5. I went back to see what running it actually looks like now, using Unsloth's quant docs, the model card, AA and the license. Short version: it's sti…

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  1. 2026-10-16 21:14 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Kimi K3, three months after the hype: too big for almost anyone to run locally, and smaller models have already caught it

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