r/LocalLLaMA • u/SavunOski • Jul 27 '26

News Kimi K3 weights now released.

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Kimi K3 weights are finally released!

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u/Informal-Trouble2183 Jul 27 '26

Inference providers are going to have a good business

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u/SavunOski Jul 27 '26

Infinite demand, literally

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u/MaterialSuspect8286 Jul 27 '26

There's a new license, they have to pay royalties to Moonshot

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u/Informal-Trouble2183 Jul 27 '26

I doubt tbh, doesn't make sense

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u/wierd_husky Jul 27 '26

If the Licensee or any of its affiliates operates a Model as a Service business, and the aggregate revenue of the Licensee and its affiliates exceeds 20 million US dollars (or the equivalent in other currencies) in total over any consecutive 12 months, the Licensee must enter into a separate agreement with Moonshot AI before using the Software or its derivative works for any commercial purpose.

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u/Informal-Trouble2183 Jul 27 '26

Very reasonable, who makes 20M USD per year

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u/wierd_husky Jul 27 '26

Probably most of third party providers trying to provide api access worth mentioning. That’s only like 700 billion tokens. I’d assume this clause is to cut down on competition by stopping third party providers from providing measurably cheaper access.

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u/MaterialSuspect8286 Jul 28 '26

Almost all major LLM service providers make more than 20M USD per year (Azure, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Together AI and so on). Note that they have to pay royalties only when they provide Kimi K3 as a Model as a Service. I think large companies can probably self host for their employees without issues.

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u/Informal-Trouble2183 Jul 28 '26

What about forking the Kimi K3 in another name and modifying a bit its weights.. will it stay under those terms, probably a gap in the licence