Speculating on the Possible Architecture of Kimi K3
nrehiew_ · x · 2026-07-16
If Kimi K3 truly reaches the Opus level, the most critical question isn't its surface-level scores, but the underlying architectural trade-offs:
- How high is the actual sparsity at a 2T parameter scale?
- What specific variant of linear attention did they use?
The core of this discussion is reverse-engineering the model's design based on its performance.
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