Devs report quality degradation when Kimi K3 is served via third-party providers
casper_hansen_ · x · 2026-10-15
Developer casperhansen reports that most providers serving Kimi K3 appear to deliver degraded output quality, while GLM-5.3 is usually served accurately. He suspects the culprit is quantization — possibly MXFP4 vs FP8. The observation suggests that quantization choices by third-party inference providers can noticeably affect real-world model quality.
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