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The model page said 8-bit. The checkpoint is 4.49 bits per parameter.

I was working out how much disk Kimi K3.1 Pro would need, and the model page gave me two numbers that cannot both be true. The card says MXFP4 weights / MXFP8 activations . The badge beside the download button says 8-bit precision . So I added up the shards I would actually pull and divided by the…

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  1. 2026-11-05 01:14 · DEV Community — AI
    The model page said 8-bit. The checkpoint is 4.49 bits per parameter.

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