The K3 marketing popup when I look at the Kimi Code page says "Kimi K3 Open Frontier Model". So, if it's not going to be open, they haven't told the whole team, yet.
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replyThe article says weights will be released in the coming days, and hints it's likely around 50-70B active params.
replyIt did say that, but it doesn't any longer.
replyWhat's the URL of the article that used to say that?
replyhttps://platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/kimi-k3-quickstart this one, it used to have more information about the model itself, similar to the K2.6 and K2.7 pages.
replyEdit: OpenRouter still describes it as an open-weight model: https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3
Guess we'll see!
That's a quickstart page for using the model on the platform not a page about the model. I am skeptical you are correct that it said something about model license earlier.
replyEdited: I was wrong.
Not the person you're responding to, just a person who still has the original version of the page open in their browser. Quoting from it:
reply"Kimi K3 is the first open-source model to reach the 2.8-trillion-parameter scale. It is the latest step in Kimi's continued push of model-scale boundaries: in 9 of the past 12 months, Kimi models have set new records for open-source model scale."
The page has definitely changed.
(I'm not sure why you would be skeptical of somebody recollecting something they probably read only half an hour earlier.)
I was skeptical because the 2.6 getting started description doesn’t say open source either. I do however appreciate the correction.
replyRight now, if you search https://www.google.com/search?q=kimi+k3+open+weight the blurb under the quickstart page contains the removed text.
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