Kimi K3 Officially Launched
milsebg · hn · 2026-07-16
Kimi's K3 is now live and visible on the official model documentation page, which also includes 8B and 1B versions.
According to the page, this is an aligned instruction model with a clearly defined training and alignment pipeline:
- SFT with thinking traces
- SFT without thinking traces
- Preference alignment using DPO
The training data covers math, science, code, general conversation, RAG, and translation. Training was completed on Jean Zay.
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