Kimi K3 gets more Hugging Face likes than downloads, a sign open models are changing
natolambert · x · 2026-07-28
Nat Lambert points out that Kimi K3 has more likes than last-month downloads on Hugging Face, which he reads as a sign of where open models are heading.
The attached model page screenshot shows 6.28k likes and 2,850 downloads last month. His takeaway is that open models are becoming less about individual access and more about acting as a distributed platform layer.
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