What are the hardware requirements for Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 Bf16?

Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 Bf16 requires approximately 32.6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 Bf16 and how large is it?

Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 Bf16 is developed by mlx-community, a model with 16.4b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 Bf16?

Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 Bf16 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 Bf16 by mlx-community — VRAM 32.6GB

Name: Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 Bf16
Author: mlx-community

Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 Bf16 is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 16.4b LLM, VRAM: 32.6GB, License: mit, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

Base model:finetune:moonshotai... Base model:moonshotai/kimi-vl-... Conversational Custom code Feature-extraction Image-text-to-text Instruct Kimi vl Mlx Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506-bf16

Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 Bf16 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 Bf16
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506-bf16
Base Model(s)	Kimi VL A3B Instruct moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct
Model Size	16.4b
Required VRAM	32.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	kimi_vl
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.2 GB: 1-of-7 5.0 GB: 2-of-7 5.0 GB: 3-of-7 5.1 GB: 4-of-7 5.0 GB: 5-of-7 5.0 GB: 6-of-7 2.3 GB: 7-of-7
Model Architecture	KimiVLForConditionalGeneration
License	mit
Model Max Length	1048576
Transformers Version	4.48.2
Padding Token	[PAD]
Vocabulary Size	163840

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