Kimi K3 could become a cheap distillation base for personal, local models
victormustar · x · 2026-07-27
Kimi K3 may matter less as a single downloadable model and more as a base for cheap personal distillation:
- a distill trained on your own traces could fit a personal workflow into a small model
- a 3D generation distill could run on a single GPU
- a math-reasoning distill might compress olympiad-level reasoning into a 12B model
The post argues software is becoming personalized and generated on the fly, and models may follow that path next.
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