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Kimi Linear 48B A3B Base by moonshotai

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Kimi Linear 48B A3B Base is an open-source language model by moonshotai. Features: 48b LLM, VRAM: 98.3GB, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

  Arxiv:2412.06464   Arxiv:2510.26692   Conversational   Custom code   Kimi linear   Region:us   Safetensors   Sharded   Tensorflow
Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Base 

Kimi Linear 48B A3B Base Parameters and Internals

LLM NameKimi Linear 48B A3B Base
Repository 🤗https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Base 
Model Size48b
Required VRAM98.3 GB
Updated2026-08-08
Maintainermoonshotai
Model Typekimi_linear
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Model ArchitectureKimiLinearForCausalLM
Licensemit
Model Max Length1048576
Transformers Version4.57.0
Tokenizer ClassTikTokenTokenizer
Padding Token[PAD]
Vocabulary Size163840

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