Run 2.78T Params on 8GB RAM: Open-Source C99 Engine for Kimi K3

dr_cintas · x · 2026-08-07

A developer has released kimi-k3-in-c, a 176KB pure C99 inference engine that runs the 2.78 trillion parameter Kimi K3 model on just 8.24GB of RAM with a CPU.

It achieves this by streaming model experts from disk instead of loading them into memory. The project is 100% open-source and requires no GPU or CUDA.

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