Moonshot AI · First MLX build 1 Aug 2026
Kimi-K3
MLX
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A 543B parameter text generation model from Moonshot AI, with one MLX build at 2-bit.
- Parameters
- 543B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 2-bit Kimi-K3-mlx-reap160-2bit
- Memory needed
- 193 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 170 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 1.6K This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 1 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 193 GB at 2-bit
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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-K3-mlx-reap160-2bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| Kimi-K3-mlx-reap160-2bit | 2-bit | 170 GB | 193 GB | 1.6K |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.