Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes
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Summary
Kimi K3 is a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model, the largest to date, scaling up from last year's 48B Kimi Linear. It introduces LatentMoE for compressing linear layers, uses NoPE (no positional embeddings) throughout, and adds attention residuals that improve validation loss with a 4% training cost increase. The architecture prioritizes inference efficiency via components like multi-head latent attention and Kimi Delta Attention, while also adding native multimodal support.