What are the hardware requirements for Kimi K2 Thinking BF16?

Kimi K2 Thinking BF16 requires approximately 220 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Kimi K2 Thinking BF16 and how large is it?

Kimi K2 Thinking BF16 is developed by unsloth. 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 K2 Thinking BF16?

Kimi K2 Thinking BF16 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Kimi K2 Thinking BF16 by unsloth — VRAM 220GB, 256K context

Name: Kimi K2 Thinking BF16
Author: unsloth

Kimi K2 Thinking BF16 is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: LLM, VRAM: 220GB, Context: 256K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

Base model:finetune:moonshotai... Base model:moonshotai/kimi-k2-... Conversational Custom code Deepseek v3 Endpoints compatible Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Kimi-K2-Thinking-BF16

Kimi K2 Thinking BF16 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Kimi K2 Thinking BF16
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Kimi-K2-Thinking-BF16
Base Model(s)	Kimi K2 Thinking moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking
Required VRAM	220 GB
Updated	2026-07-16
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	deepseek_v3
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Model Architecture	DeepseekV3ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Vocabulary Size	163840

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