Kimi K3 Held Back by Latency
victor_explore · x · 2026-07-19
The core point states: **Latency is an engineering problem; capability is a research problem**. The cited content points out that although Kimi K3 is considered a strong open-source model, it currently only has a single provider serving it, with a speed around **16 tokens/s** and a first-token latency of about **11 seconds**, already affecting agent usage in real workflows. The author believes the model itself is good but is "bottlenecked" by its own infrastructure, and calls for releasing the weights so more providers can access it.
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