Moonshot AI · First MLX build 5 Sept 2025

Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905

MLX Text modified-mit

A 1.0T parameter text generation model from Moonshot AI, with 2 MLX builds, from 3-bit to 4-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
1.0T
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905-mlx-DQ3_K_M
Memory needed
648 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
578 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
778
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
2
On mlx-community
Devices
Mac
Apple silicon

Memory

Estimated from the size of the weights, plus a fifth for context and working memory and 2 GB for macOS and your apps. Long contexts need more.

Run it

Terminal · mlx-lm
$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905-mlx-DQ3_K_M --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

2 on mlx-community
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Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905-mlx-3bit 3-bit 449 GB 505 GB 111
Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905-mlx-DQ3_K_M 4-bit 578 GB 648 GB 778

Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.