Moonshot AI · First MLX build 6 Nov 2025
Kimi-K2-Thinking
MLX
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A 1.0T parameter text generation model from Moonshot AI, with 3 MLX builds, from 3-bit to 4-bit.
- Parameters
- 1.0T From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit Kimi-K2-Thinking
- Memory needed
- 667 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 594 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 1.6K This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 3 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 667 GB at 4-bit
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128 GB
Fits with headroomTight, close other appsWon’t fit
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-Thinking --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
3 on mlx-community| Kimi-K2-Thinking-3bit | 3-bit | 449 GB | 505 GB | 52 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi-K2-Thinking-4bit | 4-bit | 578 GB | 648 GB | 283 |
| Kimi-K2-Thinking | 4-bit | 594 GB | 667 GB | 1.6K |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.