Kimi K2 Thinking by mlx-community

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Kimi K2 Thinking is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 1026.4b LLM, VRAM: 158.2GB, Context: 256K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

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Kimi K2 Thinking Benchmarks

nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

Kimi K2 Thinking Parameters and Internals

LLM NameKimi K2 Thinking
Repository 🤗https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Kimi-K2-Thinking 
Base Model(s)  Kimi K2 Thinking   moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking
Model Size1026.4b
Required VRAM158.2 GB
Updated2026-05-16
Maintainermlx-community
Model Typekimi_k2
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Model ArchitectureDeepseekV3ForCausalLM
Licenseother
Context Length262144
Model Max Length262144
Transformers Version4.51.3
Vocabulary Size163840
Torch Data Typebfloat16

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