Kimi K3 Effective Parameters Criticized: Only Matching 2022's PaLM-1
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-28
Tech commentator @teortaxesTex estimated the effective parameter count of Moonshot's newly released Kimi K3 using the sqrt(activetotal) rule of thumb, yielding around 539B. He sharply noted that this merely reaches the level of Google's PaLM-1 from April 2022, suggesting a significant gap still exists for Chinese LLMs.
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