What Hardware Does It Take to Run Kimi 3?

basedjensen · x · 2026-07-18

The discussion revolves around **what hardware is needed to run Kimi 3 effectively**. It notes that some believe 8 H100s might not be enough, weighing options between **Huawei SuperPods** and **NVL72**. The focus here isn't the model's capability itself, but rather the inference/training hardware and cluster configurations required for large model deployment—a core topic in compute infrastructure.

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