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Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct 3bit by mlx-community

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Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct 3bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 48b LLM, VRAM: 21.6GB, License: mit, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

  3-bit   3bit Base model:moonshotai/kimi-lin... Base model:quantized:moonshota...   Conversational   Custom code   Instruct   Kimi linear   Mlx   Quantized   Region:us   Safetensors   Sharded   Tensorflow
Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-3bit 

Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct 3bit Parameters and Internals

LLM NameKimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct 3bit
Repository 🤗https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-3bit 
Base Model(s)  Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct   moonshotai/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct
Model Size48b
Required VRAM21.6 GB
Updated2026-08-02
Maintainermlx-community
Model Typekimi_linear
Instruction-BasedYes
Model Files  5.4 GB: 1-of-5   5.1 GB: 2-of-5   5.2 GB: 3-of-5   5.4 GB: 4-of-5   0.5 GB: 5-of-5
Quantization Type3bit
Model ArchitectureKimiLinearForCausalLM
Licensemit
Model Max Length1048576
Transformers Version4.57.1
Tokenizer ClassTikTokenTokenizer
Padding Token[PAD]
Vocabulary Size163840

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