Kimi Linear

Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct

Moonshot AI · open-permissive mit

Parameters (B)49.123
Architecturemoe
Layers / KV heads / head dim27 / 32 / 72
Context windowunverified
Modalitiesin: text; out: text
GGUFavailable
Commercial useyes

Minimum hardware (estimate)

At Q4_K_M and 8k context, total working set ≈ 32.4 GiB. On a machine with 64 GiB system RAM and no discrete GPU: CPU-only, slow. Limiting factor: No GPU VRAM; fits in system RAM but inference will be CPU-bound.

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Scores

No Tier A comparable scores ingested yet for this model.

Provenance

HF: moonshotai/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct · snapshot 2026-08-10